V. I.

Lenin

1919

January 6, 1919

Kursk
Cheka

Copy to the Gubernia Executive Committee

Immediately arrest Kogan, a member of the Kursk
Central Purchasing Board, for refusing to help 120 starving
workers from Moscow and sending them away empty-handed. This to be published in the newspapers and by leaflet,
so that all employees of the central purchasing boards and
food organisations should know that formal and bureaucratic attitudes to work and incapacity to help starving
workers will earn severe reprisals, up to and including
shooting.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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