Date: 1920-07-07
Source: ru:PSS/v51

Source: PSS, Volume 51

I hereby order, in the name of the Council of People’s Commissars for Defense*, to issue a circular telegram throughout the entire network, strictly prohibiting the requisition of coal fuel without prior authorization from an official representative of the Main Coal Administration or an authorized representative of the Council of Defense.

Furthermore, regardless of any such authorization, I hereby forbid anyone from engaging in the requisition, rerouting, or delaying en route any shipments of coke or forge coal—no matter what purposes these shipments may be intended for, or to which destinations they may be destined.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin

text as amended

and signed by V. I. Lenin

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Written on July 7, 1920.

First published in 1942.

In Lenin Collection, Volume XXXIV.

Printed from typewritten copy