V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

URGENT. MILITARY

Sibrevkom, Comrade Frumkin
Copy to Sverdlov at his location

The restoration of railway and water transport in Siberia is one of the fundamental tasks of the Republic. Meanwhile, on your instructions, the two hundred million roubles sent to the disposal of the C.C. of Sverdlov to cover the urgent and most pressing needs of the Siberian railways have been de-reserved.

Such instructions radically undermine the work of restoring transport and make it impossible to establish communication between the centre and Siberia. I propose that you reach agreement with Sverdlov at all costs and return to the railways the money taken from them. Telegraph fulfilment*.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin