V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

8/VIII.

TO THE ORGANISING BUREAU OF THE C.C.

I have just received another report from a reliable source that members of boards are starving (for example, Markov, of the People’s Commissariat for Railways, and others). I insist most emphatically that the Central Committee should

1) instruct the All-Russia Central Executive Committee to grant all members of boards (and those in a similar position) a single cash benefit of 5,000 rubles;

2) place them all permanently on the maximum specialist’s rate.

Upon my word, it is not right otherwise: they and their families are starving!!
We must give extra rations to 100 or 200 people.