NOTES ON A TELEGRAM FROM L. N. KRITSMAN¹.
[April 4, 1919]
The release of banknotes totaling 50 million to Kharkiv and 25 million to Kyiv is utterly negligible—and cannot save not only the upcoming sugar campaign but even the factories themselves from ruin.
The situation is utterly exceptional in its degree of peril…
We earnestly implore you to safeguard this vast sector of the economy, which could provide both sugar and bread, by urgently dispatching at least 150 million [to] Kharkiv and 100 million [to] Kyiv without delay.
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To Rykov: What has been done?
1 As a representative of the All‑Union Council of National Economy, L. N. Kritsman had been dispatched to Ukraine to carry out the sugar campaign.