1920

...of the government of Mustafa Kemal lie precisely these resolutions.

There are no particular news here. The Georgian government continues to stand in deliberation, not knowing with complete certainty which way to incline—toward us or toward the Entente. And meanwhile the economic life of Georgia is becoming disrupted with each day more and more definitively, and the moment is already not far off when Noah Zhordania together with the Exarch of Georgia will have to sing "By the Rivers of Babylon"*).

With warm communist greetings,
S. Kirov

Tiflis, August 30, 1920
5563

RECORD FROM RECEPTION OF A DELEGATE FROM SIBERIA

September 17, 1920 (Poroskov)

Measures in Siberia

1) feed the poor with local grain
2) coarse grinding (otherwise only 16 pounds remains)
3) give tar (organize tar-makers: not one pud of tar for one pud of bread)
4) give salt
5) give houses for gatherings (requisition)
6) reapers were paid in grain; it was forbidden; one must organize reaping for grain
7) "zemstvo hauling"* is not organized: excessive unpaid labor and excessive hauling for peasants. They did not organize it. They're hauling for nothing.

5591

FROM A LETTER TO THE SIBREVKOM

September 26, 1920

I am sending you the following points for consideration. Write a couple of words about them.

Lenin

1. Direct attention to the rural poor of Siberia; supply them with foodstuffs from the local apportionment.

* The matter concerns the peasants' carting obligation.


2. Organize tar production in Siberia with the involvement of the local Soviet and population (local tar production).

3. Peasants receive one pud of wheat and grind it into fancy flour, obtaining 18-20 pounds of flour. It would be better to do the grinding into ordinary flour; peasants will agree to this.

4. Direct special attention to rural blacksmith shops for the repair of agricultural machines; supply them with coal.

Is it true that there were cases in Siberia of the use of butter for greasing carts (instead of tar)?

Lenin

Printed from typescript copy.


# NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS*

41 K°

September 23, 1920

Comrade Chicherin! Here is the maximum boundary. Accepted at the Tseka. One must repeat it exactly.

Lenin

5590

LETTER TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOOD

September 26, 1920

I communicate an excerpt from the letter of Comrade Vladimirov (from September 19).

"I have already arranged with Moscow for six days to send 50 routes to Ukraine for grain for the second half of September, but so far only one has arrived, and meanwhile we must hurry. Perhaps you will urge them to hurry."

I request that you report what measures have been taken**.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

* The note was written by V. I. Lenin on a report by the Commander-in-Chief on the strategic significance of the new border between Soviet Russia and Poland, the establishment of which was then being negotiated between representatives of both countries.

** On September 27 the People's Commissariat of Food reported to V. I. Lenin that the People's Commissariat of Transport had not taken the necessary measures for the export of grain from the Odessa region. The Council of Labor and Defense, having discussed on October 1 the question of measures for the export of foodstuffs from Ukraine, resolved: "To take note of the communication of Comrade Sverdlov on the measures taken for the export of foodstuffs from the Kherson-Odessa region, according to the telegram of Comrade Vladimirov" (protocol no. 155, item 18).