ON THE TELEGRAM FROM S. I. SYRTSOV

To Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

The food situation in the Don region is untenable. The Don food organs are formed on paper, but the appointed food commissars are working in Tambov and Saratov provinces instead of where they should be. The district food organs, created in a makeshift manner, are not connected with the Don Executive Committee, receive no directives or instructions, and are therefore non-functional; they cannot counter the army food plenipotentiaries, who frequently engage in outrageous abuses.

Deputy Chairman of the Don Executive Committee Syrtsov

To Tsiurupa and Sereda:
Your comments?

NB || Seeds are needed for sowing absolutely urgent!!! 116 no later than the 15th, 1920

Written in January, not before the 13th

First published in 1945 in Leninskii sbornik XXXV

Printed from the manuscript