V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v21;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

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NOTES ON A LETTER FROM YU. M. LARIN¹

[September 16, 1918]²

A Committee has been set up under the Chemical Department of the Supreme Economic Council to manage potato-grating, potato-starch and syrup factories.

These factories ensure the processing of over 100 million poods...

When the decision was taken to start the production of pressed potatoes, a corresponding scientific expert examination was made...

The Food Commissariat knows about pressing, is favourably disposed, but intends to put it into consumption only? by spring, when things will be tighter with unpressed potatoes.

At the head of the Food Department of the Chemical Department is Kritsman... (a Bolshevik from Switzerland, a chemist by training, who carried out the creation of Glavsakhar and the implementation of sugar nationalisation).

You have been invited to the Peasants’ Congress. It opened yesterday, Pyatakov was present (read a report on credit). One thousand five hundred delegates assembled from 34 gubernias, despite transport difficulties. It was convened by the Co-operative Bank from representatives of agricultural and other co-operatives. They say the mood is Soviet, especially under the influence of the shooting of village co-operators by the kulaks (during the recent revolts). What answer to give?³

For the information of Krasin and Bryukhanov.

¹ The whole text in square brackets was crossed out by Lenin (apparently before sending Larin’s note to Krasin and Bryukhanov).

² The underlinings in Larin’s letter (apparently for the purpose of emphasising the relevant facts for the information of Krasin and Bryukhanov) and the marginal notes were made by Lenin in pencil.

³ This sentence is crossed out in the original.