YEARS
3300
DIRECT WIRE MEMORANDUM
KYIV
JUNE 6, 1918, 1:15 P.M.
Lenin at the apparatus.
I did not understand which shells are bursting; what is the matter—explain.
Regarding the password I also do not understand; if you wish, let it be from us: "from Ivan Karlovich." But a serious password must be established through a courier and by cipher, not by telegraph.
Lenin

23480
TELEGRAM TO THE BORISOGLEBSK EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
COPY TO THE BOLSHEGRIBANOVSK SUGAR FACTORY
JUNE 7, 1918

Outside all normal procedure. Military

According to information received, you have decided to distribute to the population sugar from the Gribanovsk factory, disregarding the directives of the Main Sugar Board. Your intervention in the sphere of exclusive competence of the Main Sugar Board in matters of distribution is absolutely inadmissible. I hereby annul the Executive Committee's resolution and place upon the Gribanovsk factory the obligation for unconditional execution of the Main Sugar Board's assignments, independent of any other directives whatsoever. I place responsibility for the execution of this directive upon the chairman of the Executive Committee under his personal liability.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin
People's Commissariat of Food
Tsyurupa

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin and A. D. Tsyurupa.

23875
TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF AFFAIRS OF THE COUNCIL
OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS AND THE BUREAU OF THE PRESS
JUNE 15
1918

It is proposed to the administrator of affairs of the Council of People's Commissars, to the secretariat of the said Council, to the head of the chancellery and to the Bureau of the Press to take measures so that when publishing, the date of approval of all decrees of the Council of People's Commissars is indicated.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

23493
TELEGRAM TO S. G. SHAUMYAN
JUNE 18, 1918

Baku, Shaumyan

Via Astrakhan and Kushka with subsequent transmission by radio-telegraph

A decree on the nationalization of the oil industry has not yet been issued. We propose to decree the nationalization of the oil industry by the end of navigation. For now we are organizing a state monopoly on the trade in petroleum products*. Take all measures for the speediest export of petroleum products to the Volga. Report daily to the Main Oil Board on the situation of the oil industry.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

* The decree on the nationalization of the oil industry was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on June 20, 1918 (see "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee," June 22, 1918).