587. To V. M. MOLOTOV

First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from the original. · page 435

17.I.1922

Comrade Molotov:

I am sending on to you Vorovsky’s inquiry and Axelrod’s application. This needs a decision.

Axelrod has worked here in the Comintern and for the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. I have known him as a Bolshevik since 1916 in Zurich, and support his application for assistance to him and his wife in one form or another.^[1]

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Notes

[1] The question of material assistance to T. L. Axelrod was examined by the Secretariat of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee on January 21, 1922. His request was met.