V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

10. I. 1919

Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd

From my talks with Ravich and Kalinin, and from
Shadurskaya’s telegram I gather that nine-tenths of the top
machinery of government in Petrograd are engaged in doing
nothing. I advise you to think over and urgently carry out
a reorganisation, by transferring tens, if not hundreds, of
the best people to actual control of transport, with you
yourself heading the actual control of the food trains. Otherwise
there is no salvation.

Lenin