V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO M. I. FRUMKIN AND A. G. BELOBORODOV

Direct line

Frumkin, Authorised Representative of the People’s Commissariat for Food.
Beloborodov, Labour Army Council
Rostov

Despite your No. 4960/R, the centre continues to receive information from various sources: from Orjonikidze
in Tiflis, from Musabekov, Azerbaijan People’s Commissar
for Food in Baku, concerning inadequacy of the measures
taken to supply Baku with foodstuffs, which threatens further complications. Put this question up for special
discussion by Labour Army Council. Take resolute measures to supply Baku and simultaneously Georgia and
Armenia, and, in accordance with No. 293, keep the centre
regularly informed of actual supply measures. Reply immediately by
telegram. [1]

Lenin

Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence

April 15, 1921

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Notes:
[1]
The last sentence is in Lenin’s hand.— Ed.