Date: 1921
Source: ru:PSS/v52; en:CW/CW45

Source: PSS, Volume 52

You must be beaten.

1) We were late in placing the bread order. Our situation is extremely dire.

2) We failed to tap into all available sources—Sweden, among others, even for small quantities.

3) There is no precise information: what can be procured nearby, even at a very high price—and in exceedingly limited quantities.

Please coordinate all of this within the People’s Commissariat, strictly under item 267.

1921

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Written no later than May 10

First published in 1932

In the Lenin Collection, Volume XX

Printed from the manuscript