V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NIZHNI-NOVGOROD GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chairman, Gubernia Executive Committee
Nizhni

According to information received, by a decision of the
Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia Executive Committee there was no loading of grain freights on Sunday, May 30. Bearing
in mind that supplies for the Western Front, Petrograd and
Moscow are almost exclusively water-borne, a stoppage in
loading, even if only for one day, is impermissible and
criminal. Take measures to prevent any repetition of such
facts in future, and urgently report execution to me.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence