563. To V. M. MOLOTOV FOR THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Written on December 24, 1921 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from the original. · page 419

Comrade Molotov

I absolutely insist on an immediate Politbureau decision by telephone about Rudzutak’s urgent dispatch (immediately after the plenum on the trade unions) to Germany: he is running a temperature and is spitting blood. Clearly, his TB is getting worse.

Over here, he won’t be cured and, what is most important, he won’t be given a strict regimen.^[1]

Lenin

Notes

[1] On December 26, 1921, the Orgbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C., in accordance with Lenin’s proposal, recognised the need to send Y. E. Rudzutak for medical treatment in Germany, and asked People’s Commissar for Public Health N. A. Semashko to give   his conclusion concerning the place and time of the former’s leave, and the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to expedite his departure. See also this volume, Document 667.