V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW44; ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE SIMBIRSK GUBERNIA FOOD COMMISSAR

The Committee of 42 Organisations of Starving Workers of Petrograd and Moscow complains of your inefficiency. I demand maximum energy on your part, a non-formal attitude to the work, and all-round assistance to the starving workers. Should you fail, I shall be compelled to arrest the entire staff of your institutions and have them court-martialled.

I have given urgent orders for an increase in the number of locomotives and cars. You must immediately load the two trains of 30 cars each that are available. Telegraph fulfilment.

You are obliged to accept grain from the peasants day and night. If it is confirmed that you did not accept grain after 4 p.m. and made the peasants wait until morning, you will be shot.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars,
Lenin