V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH N. P. BRYUKHANOV
AUGUST 1918

1.
LENIN'S NOTE

If you have time, I will suggest a slightly different wording. If you have no time, could you give me a copy of this copy, and I will think over a different wording, while you can leave.

2.
BRYUKHANOV'S REPLY

I must go to have the draft duplicated. Without your corrections this can hardly be done. And Sverdlov demands duplication in 2,000 copies.

Comrade N. P. Bryukhanov, whom we consulted on this matter, reported the following: "I can state with almost complete certainty that the exchange of notes between Vladimir Ilyich and myself took place in August 1918. In content it is undoubtedly connected with the government orders relating to the organisation of food detachments from among the workers and poorest peasants for trips to the grain-producing gubernias, for the purpose of acquiring grain at fixed prices or requisitioning it from the kulaks (see the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of August 6, 1918, and the instruction of the People's Commissariat for Food and the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions of August 25, 1918, Collection of Decrees and Orders of the Government on Food Matters, Moscow, 1919)."