V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTE TO A. D. TSYURUPA

Tsyurupa

| Not later than August 22, 1918

I am persistently being informed that with potatoes (not rationed) there is a mass of abuses in the Regional Food Committee and elsewhere.

Merchants are offering to flood Moscow at 20 rubles per pood. They are said to be selling from hand to hand at 28 rubles (retail trade), etc.

What is your attitude to the appointment of a commission of inquiry?
And to the inclusion of Bonch-Bruyevich in the commission?

Written by Lenin, apparently at a session of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK). Tsyurupa's reply has not been preserved in the SNK files.

Basis for dating: The draft decree of the SNK on potato prices (see below) was written by Lenin on August 22, 1918. The note printed here apparently preceded the above-mentioned document.