Could you find it possible to create a commission within Komprod to improve matters in the indicated respect? If there is a commission, then give it such a task. In the commission
attract more workers (from the trade unions) who have worked in Komprod (or if possible from those workers who also have some experience in food supply work on the ground).

Show this letter to Comrade Krestinsky. If he gives his (and the other members of the Politburo's) consent, then we shall transform this into a directive of the Central Committee.

Your Lenin

First published in 1942 in Lenin's Collected Works XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript