V. I.

Lenin

710

To:   N. P. BRYUKHANOV [1]

4/X.

Comrade Bryukhanov,

1) The description relates to the period of the landing.
After it was liquidated the feeling and the state of affairs
changed completely as, incidentally, Lander told me yesterday.

2) Lander also tells me that precisely now, after the
successful suppression of a number of revolts (connected
with the landing), grain collection (chiefly in the Kuban
area, where there is plenty of grain) has gone forward and
will go forward.

3) In Lander’s opinion, we can take there more than the
estimated requisition quota.

Draw Frumkin’s attention to this in a confidential letter
(not a telegram) to him. We must make the most of this opportunity, not lose time (it will be worse later), and
apply our efforts to the Kuban.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written by Lenin in connection with a report from the Terek
Regional Food Committee forwarded to him by Bryukhanov, Deputy
People’s Commissar for Food. The report dealt with the difficult
conditions of work in the region as a result of Wrangel’s landing
in the Kuban area, with the unsatisfactory progress of food
procurements, and with the feeling among the population.