V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

To the Gubernia Food Committees of the following gubernias: Vladimir, Ryazan, Samara, Simbirsk, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Tula, Tambov

Reply immediately:

1) When did you receive the instructions of the People's Commissariat for Food on the procurement of potatoes in 1919-1920.

2) Was an apparatus set up to implement the decree on the potato monopoly.

3) When and what kind of procurement apparatus was set up, how much potatoes have been procured and shipped since the beginning of the campaign.

4) Is procurement being carried on with other organisations and which ones. How much have they procured and shipped.

5) Does the quota of the People's Commissariat for Food correspond to the surpluses available in the gubernias. Send the information to the Kremlin, to the Presidium of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, Room 33.

Chairman of the Commission of the Council of Defence for Investigating the People's Commissariat for Food
A. Kiselev

I strongly support Comrade Kiselev's request and ask you to comply strictly.

Chairman, Council of Defence, Lenin