Yelets. Narkomzehm Serede.
August 27, 1918, Moscow. [9:25 PM]¹
If the mass threshing is delayed—as you report—due to the sowing and harvesting of oats, then the situation must be remedied by dispatching a large number of threshing detachments. It would be critically important to accelerate the supply effort by enlisting Moscow’s workers; for this purpose, you must organize such efforts without delay. We must demonstrably show the workers of Moscow, through their own collective experience, that it is only their active participation that can swiftly advance the provision of food supplies. See to it that this is done immediately.
Lenin.
1 The time of transmission is determined on the basis of the telegraph form upon which Lenin’s telegram was affixed.