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According to information received by the People's Commissariat of Food, you have at your disposal six thousand puds of pressed black caviar, which you intend to export abroad in the course of independent commodity exchange. We consider it necessary to draw your attention to the undesirability, from the general state point of view, of your uncoordinated action with us on the question of commodity exchange. In the event that you truly have a surplus of six thousand puds of pressed caviar, we request that you send it to Moscow to the address of the People's Commissariat of Food for distribution among children and the sick of the proletariat in the starving centers.

Report on further measures by telegraph to the People's Commissariat of Food — Distribution Division.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin**

* The telegram was also signed by People's Commissar of Agriculture S. P. Sereda. — Ed.

** The telegram was also signed by Deputy People's Commissar of Food N. P. Bryukhanov. — Ed.

Written June 29, 1920

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin