V. I.

Lenin

77

To:   A. D. TSYURUPA

Comrade Tsyurupa:

Your figures show the stocks on 1.II to be 40.3 food +
5.4 groats==45.7. [1]

The probable figure for 1.III is about 48 .

By 1.IV, probably, not less than 50.

From 1.IV to 1.IX is five months. 50 : 5==10.

This rough estimate shows that for Russia, for the
R.S.F.S.R. (without the Ukraine), it is quite possible to
abolish the surplus-requisition from 15.III or l.IV, and
try out the new regime until 1.IX or 15.VIII.

What do you think?

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Notes:
[1]
Written on the strength of A. D. Tsyurupa’s report on the grain
balances as of February 1, 1921, saying that there were 40.3
million poods of food grain and 5.4 million poods of groats in
European Russia, Siberia and the Caucasus.