V. I.

Lenin

249

To:   A. D. TSYURUPA [1]

Tsyurupa:

In any case we must prepare for , announce and hold
Starving Children’s Week.

Perhaps it should be combined with grain requisitioning
and a special mobilisation of the Poor Peasants’ Committees.

Perhaps something more could be done for the children?

It should be.

I enclose this about meat : please return it to me as quickly as possible with the Food Commissariat’s brief
comment. [2]

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin’s directives to Tsyurupa were written on the memorandum
of the Education Commissariat’s Inter-Departmental Commission
for the Purchase of Food for the Children of Moscow and
Petrograd. The memorandum outlined measures for the better food
provision of the children, specifically, the organisation and
holding of a Starving Children’s Week for obtaining produce in
rural localities in exchange for commodities, and for delivery of
this produce to the towns.

[2]
The document referred to has not been found.