2) urgently discuss whether it is possible to find practical means and ways, under the existing conditions of peasant farming, way of life and habits, to introduce maize into the people’s food (cf. p. 35 of the Gosplan memorandum).

I request that you immediately arrange for a discussion of these questions in the agricultural section and in the presidium, with the mandatory involvement of all shades of opinion regarding maize.

Report to the Council of Labour and Defence on Friday, 21. X. 1921321.

Chairman V. Ulyanov (Lenin)