V. I.

Lenin

593

To:   LYDIA FOTIEVA

Add to the Moscow and Petrograd Soviets (in communicating today’s decision on market
gardens) [2] that we are also expecting them to adopt measures for taking stock of and
confiscating surpluses from the suburban market gardeners. [1]

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Notes:
[1]
The document bears a note by Fotieva: “In the minutes or
only in the telephone message?” in which V. I. Lenin underlined three
times the words “only in the telephone message”.— Ed.

[2]
Lenin is referring to the decision of the C.P.C. of May 27, 1920,
on food resources, directing the Moscow and Petrograd Soviets
“to give special attention to the need to increase the amount of
market-garden products obtained from the environs of the
capitals this year and to submit to the C.P.C. within a fortnight their