2. Organize tar production in Siberia with the involvement of the local Soviet and the population (local production of tar).
3. Peasants receive one pood of wheat and grind it into groats, they get 18-20 pounds of flour. It is better to do the grinding into plain flour, the peasants will agree to this.
4. Pay special attention to rural forges for the repair of agricultural machines, supply them with coal. Is it true that there have been cases in Siberia of using cow butter for lubricating carts (instead of tar)?
Lenin

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NOTE TO THE NARCOMINDEL*
41 K°
September 23, 1920

Comrade Chicherin! Here is the boundary-maximum. Adopted in the Central Committee. Must be repeated exactly.

Lenin

LETTER TO THE NARCOMPROD
September 26, 1920

I am reporting an excerpt from a letter from Comrade
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September 19).

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

Please report what measures have been taken**.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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* The note was written by V.I. Lenin on the report of the Commander-in-Chief on the strategic importance of the new border between Soviet Russia and Poland, on the establishment of which negotiations were then underway between representatives of both countries.
** On September 27, the Narcomprod informed V.I. Lenin that the Narcomways had not taken the necessary measures to export grain from the Odessa region. The Council of Labor and Defense, having discussed on October 1 the issue of measures to export food from Ukraine, decided: "To take note of Comrade Sverdlov's report on the measures taken to export food from the Kherson-Odessa region, according to Comrade Vladimirov's telegram" (protocol No. 155, item 18).

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NOTE TO THE NARCOMPROD
September 27, 1920

I am sending you two documents, please read and return both to me:
1) About the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Governorate - we will put it on the Council of Defense on September 29*.
It is necessary to pay close attention and try to satisfy their requests as much as possible.
2) About the Tambov Governorate.
Pay attention. Is the assessment of 11 million poods correct? Should it be reduced?

With communist greetings
Lenin
23288

NOTE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
September 28, 1920

Inquire about the circumstances of the loss of Minsk, headquarters, and materiel in the process**.

Was the danger known earlier?
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NOTE TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET DELEGATION IN LONDON
September 29–30, 1920

I won’t read it. I have already written to Chicherin more than once: enough cooing, submit business proposals to the Central Committee***.

* The Council of Labor and Defense, having discussed on October 1 V.I. Lenin’s message on the supply of fuel and food to the restored factories of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Governorate, classified as a shock group of textile enterprises, decided: "a) To approve the agreement between the Iv.-Voznesensk Provincial Food Committee and the Narcomprod of September 28 of this year; b) To take note of the Narcomprod’s message about the 40 wagons of food sent from Nizhny" (protocol No. 155, item 13).
** Pinsk was abandoned by the Red Army on September 28, 1920.
*** Written in connection with G.V. Chicherin’s complaint about the publication by Petrogradskaya Pravda, without the permission of the Narcomindel, of a report on the results of the Soviet delegation’s trip to London. "It is necessary," Chicherin wrote, "to take decisive measures. Our censorship must be absolutely obligatory—this was decided, but the violation of this goes unpunished."