AND TELEGRAM TO N. P. BRUKHANOV

Send a telegram to Brukhanov

I am informed that in the Oryol and Tula provinces, the collection of the food tax is proceeding remarkably easily and quickly.

* See this volume, documents 450, 483, and 500. Ed.

** This phrase is written in V. I. Lenin's handwriting. Ed.

Preobrazhensky, who was in the Oryol province, assures that the entire food tax will be paid within three weeks. Please inform me in a few words about your information and how often you receive telegrams regarding the collection of the food tax. Exemplary provinces or districts should be specially rewarded.

What measures are being taken to concentrate salt reserves, as well as to ensure that salt is sold only for grain both in the RSFSR and in Ukraine. Shouldn't the distribution of salt in cities also be restricted to make it more difficult to engage in anarchic barter for salt?

Lenin

Dictated over the phone
October 31, 1921