V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; ru:LS/v34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Besides Ryazan, Tula, Orel, Voronezh, Kursk, Kaluga
Copy to Head of Gubernia Land Department

By Order No. 500/BA of August 30 I ordered that the compulsory sowing of the entire area of winter fields be declared a fighting state task for all organs of authority, especially volost and village ones, and the Gubernia Food Commissar was personally charged with the duty of reporting on the fulfilment of the order by October 15. Hereby I propose that within three days you report to me in the Kremlin by direct wire on the fulfilment of the order. In your report communicate:
1) the percentage of failure to sow as compared with 1919; 2) the percentage of failure to sow as compared with 1916; 3) the causes of failure to sow; 4) the area of land taken from defaulting sowers and transferred to societies for sowing. All numerical data must be communicated on a uyezd scale. Responsibility for the timely dispatch of replies is placed personally on the Gubernia Food Commissar and the Head of the Gubernia Land Department.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin*