Yelets  
5 August 1918  

I am surprised by the delay in sending your detachment. Telegraph why you delayed and when you are leaving. We must speed up in every way **  

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars  
Lenin  

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* V. L. Panyushkin – commissar of the military-food detachment.  
** Panyushkin's detachment, previously part of the food army, was being transferred to the active army on the Eastern Front.