V. I.

Lenin

700

To:   THE SIBERIAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

Comrade I. N. Smirnov, I am sending you for consideration the following
points. [1]
Drop me a line about them.

Yours, Lenin

1. Attention to be paid to the rural poor of Siberia, who
are to be supplied with food from the local requisition
quotas.

2. Tar production to be organised in Siberia, enlisting
the local Soviets and the population ( local tar production).

3. The peasants obtain a pood of wheat and mill it into
the finest flour, getting 18–20 pounds. It would be better
to mill into simple flour, the peasants will agree to this.

4. Special attention to be paid to the village
blacksmiths’ shops for repairs to agricultural machinery. Charcoal
to be supplied to them.

Is it true that there have been instances in Siberia of
butter being used to grease carts (instead of tar)?

Lenin

26. IX. 20

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Notes:
[1]
On September 17, 1920, Lenin had a talk with S. I. Poroskun,
a member of the Moscow Bureau of the Siberian Revolutionary
Committee, who had returned from Siberia, and made notes of
the measures proposed by Poroskun for helping the Siberian
peasantry (see Lenin Miscellany XXXV , p. 151). The results of this
conversation and the measures proposed by Poroskun are reflected
in this letter of Lenin’s to the Siberian Revolutionary Committee.