455. To V. A. SMOLYANINOV^[1]

Written on October 21, 1921 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from the original. · page 349

Comrade Smolyaninov:

We must press forward with the question of cotton in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan (Mugan Steppe) and in Armenia.

Tell Rykov and see to it that the State Bank should issue as big and as easy a loan as possible.

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] On October 21, the C.L.D. decided: to authorise the People’s Commissariat for Finance immediately to issue the required funds for the irrigation of the Mugan Steppe.