Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

40

To: N. P. GORBUNOV

Written: Written on January 6, 1921
Published: First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 69^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Gorbunov:

It is necessary

1) to have this translated into (good) German,

2) find out (from Semashko and M. N. Pokrovsky or throughthem) whether we could add

that Pavlov has not applied to leave (is it true that he would not like to go?),

that he has been given the specified privileges.

Since my letter may be published, the addition of this is highly desirable.

Yours,
Lenin

P.S. Please return allthese documents to me.