V. I.

Lenin

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To:   A. P. SMIRNOV, G. I. PETROVSKY AND I. E. GUKOVSKY

28/VI. 1918

Comrade Smirnov or Petrovsky, People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs,
and Comrade Gukovsky, People’s Commissar for Finance

I strongly recommend the bearer, Comrade Semyon
Ivanovich Lebedev, Chairman of the Temnikov Soviet, Tambov Gubernia.

He asks for a loan of 1 1/2 million . From his account it is evident that affairs in the uyezd are exemplary. A
most instructive example of a model uyezd where the kulaks
have in actual fact been ousted from all the Soviets. In
my opinion, such an uyezd should be given priority assistance.

Lenin

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