31 July 1919

Moscow, People's Commissariat for Food, copy to Council of Defence, to Lenin

Sarapul, 30 July. Joint meeting

To get in touch by telephone with the responsible instructors travelling on the steamship

Tsyurupa.

"Krasnaya Zvezda", and the Sarapul Uyezd Revolutionary Committee " with responsible workers considers it absolutely

necessary, in the interests of the success of food procurements in the Prikamye region, not to disturb

the organisation of Oprodkomarm 2 and supports the telegram of the instructor of the People's Commissariat for Food, Bobrov, proposes to consolidate behind Oprodkomarm 2 the procurement region now occupied by it. In a short period Oprodkomarm has restored procurements, reaching 150 thousand poods of grain and two thousand head of livestock. In the event of this organisation's departure, procurements in Prikamye will be reduced to nothing.

Political Commissar of "Krasnaya Zvezda" Molotov

# TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC

Summer 1919

I

know one comrade thoroughly, as a man of absolutely exceptional devotion, courage and energy

(especially regarding explosions and daring raids).*

I propose (1) to give him the opportunity to study command affairs (take all measures for acceleration, especially reading lectures, etc.),

what can be done?

(2) to entrust him with organising a special detachment for explosions etc.** in the enemy's rear.

It concerns the well-known Bolshevik revolutionary

Kamo

(A. Ter-Petrosyan).

* * —etc.