January 15, 1918.

Comrades Suvorov and Antropov, authorized by the Regional Committee of the Ural Soviets, are the bearers. It is necessary to instruct them to take the most revolutionary measures to advance wagons of bread from Siberia to Petrograd.

Lenin.

The decree printed below was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on the question "On Reducing the Term of Punishment and Mitigating the Fate of Persons Who Have Committed and Are Accused of Committing Criminal Offenses" on February 5 (January 23), 1918 (protocol of the Council of People's Commissars No. 54 and 44, Archive, I. L. No. 44455). Written by Lenin, apparently at the very meeting of the Council of People's Commissars in the process of discussing the issue.