V. I.   Lenin

504

UNDERLININGS AND AN INSTRUCTION ON S. I. SYRTSOV’S TELEGRAM


Written: Written in January, not earlier than 13 and not later than 15, 1920
Published: First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 330a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

The position in the Don as regards food organisation is impossible. The Don food agencies have boon set up on paper, but the appointed food officials are working in the Tambov and Saratov gubernias, and not where they should be. The district food agencies, set up in amateur fashion and not connected with the Don Executive Committee, are receiving no directives and instructions, and for that reason are not capable of working, and cannot counteract the army food agents who frequently commit outrageous excesses.

Syrtsov
Deputy Chairman, Don Executive Committee

Tsyurupa and Sereda:

N.B. ||
Your comments?

Seed is badly needed for sowing!![1]


Notes

[1] On January 15, 1920, Tsyurupa communicated Lenin’s instruction to M. K. Vladimirov, Chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Southern Front, and asked him to report on the state of food work in the Don Region.


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