V. I.

Lenin

1918

141

TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORJONIKIDZE

People’s Secretarial
For Commissar Orjonikidze
Kharkov

I have received your telegram of January 20, 1918. Hearty
thanks for your energetic measures regarding food. Go on
trying for God’s sake as hard as you can to secure foodstuffs,
press on with collection and delivery of grain, so as to
arrange supply before the spring floods. All hopes are on you,
otherwise famine by the spring is inevitable.

I have talked, and will talk, with Pyatakov about sending money. A hundred millions have been sent, fifty will
be sent to Kharkov. Take measures for triple defence of the
railway line from Petrograd to Kharkov. I am sure that your relations with the Central Executive Committee in
Kharkov will as before be entirely friendly. Greetings and
best wishes.

Lenin