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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE TAMBOV GUBERNIA FOOD COMMITTEE

20. VIII. 1918

Gubernia Food Committee
Tambov

In Usman Uyezd, landowners’ grain has been harvested from 7,000 dessiatines of sown area in Safonovo, Baryatino
and Novo-Nikolskoye volosts, and has been delivered to the elevator. Telegraph immediately how many poods of
grain there are in this elevator, whether the guard is reliable, why you are slow in dispatching grain to Moscow,
who is to blame for the scandalous delay, whether there are
Poor Peasants’
Committees [1] in Usman Uyezd and are they reliable.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars