TELEGRAM

TO THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEES OF CRIMEA450

To all revolutionary committees of the Crimean Peninsula

Secret

With the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by our valiant troops, various warehouses of goods brought from abroad, as well as collected within the country for export abroad, have come into our hands. Our Soviet Federative Republic is currently waging a tense struggle against economic devastation and is in dire need of supplying the Red Army and leading industrial enterprises with the most necessary means of production, materials and semi-finished products. All such items located on the Crimean Peninsula and obtained by us from the enemy must be most carefully inventoried by interdepartmental trophy commissions, and these detailed inventories must be reported to
Kombezhoz, copy, Utilization Commission in Moscow. All goods of local origin must be similarly protected from any embezzlement, inventoried in detail, and information about them must also be reported to Kombezhoz, copy, Utilization Commission. Of these goods, those of importance for

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export abroad should be used by us to acquire the means of production so necessary for us abroad, and the rest should be used most effectively for our internal needs to supply the Red Army, industrial enterprises and the population. All persons and institutions who allow a violation of this order and allow the embezzlement of these trophy goods will suffer the most severe punishment.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

Written November 19, 1920

First published on February 23 Printed from a typed

1942 in the newspaper "Pravda" No. 54 text, corrected and signed by V. I. Lenin