Date: 1919-07-09
Source: ru:PSS/v51

By Direct Wire
Without Any Delay


Nizhny Novgorod
To the Chairman of the Gubernia Executive Committee
To the Chairman of Volgoprod
To the Gubernia Commissar for Food
To the Gubernia Military Commissar


The loading of grain in Nizhny for Moscow is being delayed due to the lack of loading equipment. In connection with the extremely critical food situation in Moscow, it is absolutely necessary to take measures and exert all efforts to immediately load and dispatch the grain allocated by Komprod to Moscow. The military and civilian authorities are instructed, without the slightest delay, to mobilize workers and soldiers for the immediate loading of the grain. Report on the execution—


TELEGRAM TO V. A. RADUS-ZEN'KOVICH. 11 JULY 1919. 11


of this order by telegraph. For negligence or lack of energy, responsibility will be held according to the laws of wartime*.


Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin**


Written on 9 July 1919


First published in 1931 in the Lenin Collection XVIII


Printed from the text written in the hand of A. D. Tsyurupa, supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin