Copy to the Provincial Food Committee

According to available information, within the limits of the Chuvash Republic there are 35,000 poods of meat that have not been transported to railway stations owing to the absence of draft transport. In view of the imminent onset of thaws and the possible spoilage of meat, we propose that measures be taken in combat order to ensure that the Food Commissariat is supplied with transport for the shipment of meat. Immediately telegraph us concerning the measures adopted.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin*

Written February 24, 1921

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin