V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE 3rd ARMY, THE PERM GUBERNIA COMMISSAR FOR FOOD, THE COMMISSAR OF THE PERM RAILWAY, AND THE EKATERINBURG GUBERNIA COMMISSAR FOR FOOD [3]

R.M.C. 3
Gubernia Commissar for Food
Perm
Commissar of Perm Railway
Gubernia Commissar for Food
Ekaterinburg
Copy to the Metals Department, Ekaterinburg [1]

At all costs provide all workers of the Urals, particularly the Ekaterinburg district, Kizel and other
coal-mining districts, with full supplies of essential foodstuffs.
All army authorities and railway officials are responsible
for unconditional fulfilment. Reply at once how many poods have been supplied, and
where. [2]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence

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Notes:
[1]
The words “Copy to the Metals Department, Ekaterinburg”
are in Sklyansky’s handwriting.— Ed.

[2]
The word? “how many poods have been supplied, and where”
are in Sklyansky’s handwriting.— Ed.

[3]
This telegram was written by decision of the Council of Defence,
which dealt with the question of food supplies for the mining and
metallurgical workers of the Urals at its sitting on November
20, 1919. Later, on December 15, Lenin sent another telegram
to the same destination: “...regarding the supply of food for the
Urals workers, only once has a reply been received—on December
15. Reports (how many poods are delivered) must be sent twice
a month” = ( Lenin Miscellany XXXIV , p. 245). On January
14, 1920, a telegram signed by Lenin and Rykov was sent to the
R.M.C. of the Eastern Front, the Ufa Gubernia Food Commissar,
the Commissar of the Samara-Zlatoust railway, and the Special
Food Commissar of the 5th Army, pointing out the necessity
of supplying food to all workers of the South Urals factories,
mines and pits (see Lenin Miscellany XXXIV , p. 253).