V. I.

Lenin

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EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH A. D. TSYURUPA

Tsyurupa

1) Who and when are you sending to the local areas
(Schlichter, Bryukhanov, who else? and where to?)?

2) We’ve had a talk with Pravdin (he arrived today
from Tula, Yelets , Orel).

There is grain, exemplary order, power in the hands of the poor peasants .

3) Who are you sending to Tambov and with what
detachments? Should not Bryukhanov be sent there? The most
energetic person is needed there.

( Today I had a talk with people from Tambov; the harvest is unprecedented; there is also old grain; the kulaks
can be brought to heel, but there is a lack of organisers
and detachments .)

4) Are we going to put up with the absence of a (food)
dictatorship in Moscow? It’s a scandal! A disgrace!

Schlichter is going to Yefremov Uyezd, Tula Gubernia. I sent a
comrade to Zinoviev in Petrograd (or workers for his detachment.
Urgent loading of goods is in progress at present. In about
5 days’ time he will set out. [1]

A. Ts.

Tsyurupa

Five days for an exchange of telegrams with Zinoviev (who long ago was asking where to send detachments) and
for loading the goods (1 day??).

This is monstrous red tape. Appoint ten officials— scoundrels from the Food Commissariat—and demand that
everything be done in 1 day or in 2 days , otherwise dismissal and prosecution.