V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE COMMISSARIAT FOR FOOD AND THE FOOD DEPARTMENT OF THE SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL [1]

13. I. 1918

The bearers, Comrades Suvorov and Antropov, are delegates of the Regional Committee of the Urals Soviets.

It is necessary to authorise them to adopt the most revolutionary measures to ensure the movement to Petrograd
of railway trucks with grain from Siberia.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This document and the note to the secretary which follows it
were written by Lenin in connection with a memorandum received from the Food and Economic Committee of the Territorial
Soviet of Western Siberia and the Urals, which reported that the
Omsk railway was sabotaging the dispatch of food consignments
to the west, as a result of which over a thousand loaded trucks
remained stationary. The committee requested the appointment
of an emergency commission of investigation. This memorandum
was delivered by delegates from Urals factories, who had arrived
with a train-load of grain.