V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v34
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM TO ALL GUBPRODKOMS
OF THE PRODUCING GUBERNIAS
July 23, 1919

With a view to establishing a uniform and correct procedure, it is hereby communicated for your guidance that you have no right to fulfil any planned or extra-plan requirements from anyone except the People's Commissariat for Food and the Chairman of the Defence Council. When your gubernia is included in, or is situated in, a front area, the right to present extra-plan requirements, in cases of extreme necessity for meeting the urgent needs of the army, is granted by a decision of the Council of People's Commissars to the Front Opodkom. Apart from these strictly defined cases and apart from persons having special powers from the People's Commissariat for Food, no one may issue orders or alter the system of fulfilling these orders. Inform all uprodkoms of your gubernia of this, instructing them to be strictly guided by this instruction.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

People's Commissar for Food
Tsyurupa

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signed by
V. I. Lenin and
A. D. Tsyurupa.