V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO M. I. KALININ

Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russia C.E.C.
Simbirsk or present whereabouts

Food workers at Atyashevo station are complaining that on your orders, bag-traders’ potatoes are being dispatched,
prices have shot up, procurements have stopped. We consider it absolutely necessary to refrain from giving concrete technical directives and orders on food matters
which cancel the decrees and violate the general food policy. In general, do not impair departmental and party
inter-relations, devote main attention to the peasants.

On behalf of the Political Bureau of the C.C. , Lenin [1]

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Notes:
[1]
The words “Simbirsk or present whereabouts ” in the address,
and the text of the telegram from the words “In general”, are in
Lenin’s handwriting.— Ed .