V. I.

Lenin

157

TELEGRAM TO A. Y. MINKIN [2]

Minkin

It is stupid to ask whether a People’s Commissar for
Finance, and one of a single region at that, can countermand my order. If that order is not carried out, I shall have
the guilty persons prosecuted. Leave the company of Letts
in Penza for the time being until the suppression in
Chembar. Tell all members of the Executive Committee and all
Communists that it is their duty ruthlessly to suppress
the kulaks and to confiscate all the grain of the insurgents.
Your inactivity and weakness is exasperating. I demand detailed reports on the fulfilment of all my orders and
especially on the measures of suppression and confiscation. [1]

Lenin