Tula

Gubernia Soviet
To be forwarded to Panyushkin

Surprised at the absence of news. Report urgently how much grain has been collected, how many wagons dispatched, how many speculators and kulaks arrested.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin

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Written June 3, 1918.

First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVIII.

Printed from the manuscript.