V. I. Lenin

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

To Comrade Rykov

The seizure of 15 million poods of benzine in Grozny 187 compels us to adopt a number of urgent and important measures, as follows:

1. Particularly strict guarding of the benzine.

Military measures. Special responsibility of the military.
2. Calculation: how much we need (maximum).

The rest—abroad for locomotives.
3. Collection of lorries (from everywhere, especially from the army) and their repair for hauling grain to the stations.
4. Mobilisation of lorries and drivers for this purpose.
5. Haulage of benzine to central stores.

Perhaps you will call a conference (of the Commissariat for Food and the War Department) on this question and submit the conference’s proposal to the Council of Defence?

I ask you to do this without delay.

28/III. Lenin