Draft Title:
“Decree on Greater Uniformity in Food Rations and on the Labor Ration as the Foundation of the Entire Food System.”
What was formerly referred to as the “general civil standard” shall be renamed as
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The Decree was adopted by the Sovnarkom on April 30, 1920, and published in Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on May 4, 1920.

the “standard for the unemployed and small proprietors,” or: citizens who have their own occupations yet are not employed, and so forth (or: “smallholders”), “those not working in Soviet enterprises or institutions.”
Benefits: (1) In the capital cities and all non-agricultural, industrial towns, there will be tremendous simplification (since a large portion of the population is already employed in Soviet enterprises or Soviet institutions).
(2)
In non-industrial towns, we can clearly distinguish the population that does not work in Soviet enterprises or Soviet institutions—and this segment of the population must gradually be relieved of its dependency on rations (either by cultivating a garden of their own, or by seeking employment in Soviet enterprises or Soviet institutions).
We shall not provide sustenance to those who neither work in Soviet enterprises nor in Soviet institutions.
Let us calculate under which system food ration cards will be simpler—this will determine the entire system’s efficiency.
Lenin