Decree of the Council of Labour and Defence

Instruct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to give directions to the Crimean and Caucasian fronts, obliging our divisions, when withdrawing, to take from the population all food surpluses and to deprive of horses the territory we are temporarily leaving (without harming the workers).

Approved in the Council of Defence**.

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V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

To the Small Council of People's Commissars.
I request that this matter be examined as quickly as possible. From the enclosed it is clear that the order of the Central Food Commissariat places these products at the disposal of KUBU (Commission for Improving the Living Conditions of Scientists). That means, without the consent of the centre, Petrograd has no right to requisition and credit them!

Lenin