V. I.

Lenin

164

To:   M. V. FRUNZE

Comrade Frunze

Copies to Comrades Petrovsky and Rakovsky and the Ukrainian
C.P. C.C. [1]

18. V.1921

Comrade Bukharin says the crop in the south is excellent.

The main question for the whole of Soviet power, a lifeand-death question for us, is to collect 200–300 million
poods in the Ukraine.

The main requirement for this is salt. Everything should
be taken over, all the areas of extraction should, be ringed
with a triple cordon of troops, not a pound should be let
through or allowed to be stolen.

This is a matter of life and death.

Put this on a military footing. Appoint persons specifically responsible for each operation. Let me have a list of
them (everything through the Central Salt Administration).

You are the Commander-in-Chief of salt.

The responsibilities are all yours. [2]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence

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