will carry out as true revolutionaries, that is, by giving the detachment
select people, reliable non-robbers, and for action according to
assignments in full agreement with Tsyurupa, for the common cause of saving
from starvation all the hungry, and not only for themselves. [399]
Lenin.

A. S. Vedernikov — commissar of the Vyksa factories.
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EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN V. I. LENIN AND V. I. NEVSKY
(NOT LATER THAN JUNE 1, 1918)

1.
LENIN'S NOTE.
1. Do you know Birshert?¹
— and — him?
2. Can he be given special powers for the transport of grain?
3. Is it true that in Vyatka there is a bottleneck of 8000 wagons?
4. Why do you not take Gorbunov² entirely?
5. Have you doubted his ability?

II.
NEVSKY'S REPLY.
1. I do not know him and have never heard of him.
2. Therefore I cannot answer.
3. In Vyatka there are great difficulties, but not 8000 wagons and not
so great as they say. In half an hour they will report by telephone
exactly how many wagons are there.
4. I have not only taken Gorbunov, but he is of great help to me;
the whole trouble is only that he has now himself become convinced
what a thing my collegium is (today, for example, it came in full
force to oppose me, thinking that I would introduce a decree
on the organization of the Commissariat, a decree whose draft was
rejected by the collegium).
5. On the contrary, it would be useful to appoint him a member of the
collegium: in my opinion he could put in order what has been disrupted by
Sholomovich³ and Rogov.⁴ Kobozev is coming.