V. I.

Lenin

599

INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY [1]

Telephone Bryukhanov: if Belenky does not absolutely guarantee the delivery, and quickly, then it is obligatory
at once to permit independent procurements. It is criminal to lose Baku because of the idiocy or obstinacy of officials
of the Food Commissariat.

Lenin

2/6.

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Notes:
[1]
Written on a telegram to Lenin dated June 1, 1920, from Z. N.
Dosser, Chairman of the Chief Oil Committee, and A. P. Serebrovsky,
Chairman of the Azerbaijan Oil Committee. The telegram reported
the grave food situation among the workers of the Baku oil industry
owing to the fact that A. Y. Belenky, Special Food Commissar,
failed to fulfil obligations in regard to the dispatch of food from
the Northern Caucasus to Baku, while at the same time refusing
to allow the oil workers to make their own food procurements in
the Northern Caucasus.