V. I.

Lenin

374

To:   A. I. SVIDERSKY OR A. D. TSYURUPA

To Svidersky (or Tsyurupa): You must seize at it with both hands. Send the food army there + food supply
workers.

Start an agitation among the starving workers: to the
Belaya for 5 million poods. Reply what you are doing . [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
On June 23, 1919, Lenin received a telegram from the River
Transport Administration Committee, reporting the existence of large
stocks of grain on the Belaya River and the need to expedite its
dispatch.

In reply to Lenin’s inquiry, Svidersky reported that, in order
to expedite grain procurements on the Belaya River and in Ufa
Gubernia in general, M. I. Frumkin, a member of the Board of
the People’s Commissariat for Food, had gone there from Samara,
and that measures would be taken to send food army men to the
Belaya.

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