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TELEGRAM TO V. A. RADUS-ZENKOVICH

Top priority
11. VII. 1919

Zenkovich, Chairman, Gubernia Executive Committee
Saratov
To be shown also to Yaroslavsky, Krylenko, Plaksin and the Gubernia Food Commissar

Please verify at once through absolutely reliable and impartial persons whether it is true that Sergei Malyshev
is working excellently in Volsk and Balakovo with a barge-shop, further whether it is true that there is a huge crop
on the left bank of the Volga, and that there are not enough
people for harvesting work. How many thousands, and when, are needed from the northern gubernias? Petrograd
and Moscow are without grain. Heroic measures needed.
Wire exact reply immediately.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence