V. I.

Lenin

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UNDERLININGS AND AN INSTRUCTION ON S. I. SYRTSOV’S TELEGRAM

Lenin , Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

The position in the Don as regards food organisation is
impossible. The Don food agencies have boon set up on paper, but the
appointed food officials are working in the Tambov and Saratov gubernias,
and not where they should be. The district food agencies, set up in
amateur fashion and not connected with the Don Executive
Committee, are receiving no directives and instructions, and for that reason
are not capable of working, and cannot counteract the army food agents
who frequently commit outrageous excesses.

Syrtsov
Deputy Chairman, Don Executive Committee

Tsyurupa and Sereda:

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Your comments?

Seed is badly needed for sowing!! [1]

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Notes:
[1]
On January 15, 1920, Tsyurupa communicated Lenin’s instruction to M. K. Vladimirov, Chairman of the Special Food
Commission of the Southern Front, and asked him to report on the
state of food work in the Don Region.