V. I.

Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV [2]

30/ V.1921

Comrade Bryukhanov, People’s Commissariat for Food

Copy to Comrade Smolyaninov

There must be a speed-up in the shipment of sacks for
Comrade Vladimirov, Ukraine’s People’s Commissar for
Food, and also the shipment of goods for the Ukrainian commodity exchange fund . Please notify me of your
subsequent instructions. [1]

Give me exact information today, and keep me informed daily, formally and in writing, about
what is being actually done. This is Bryukhanov’s personal
responsibility. Appoint persons responsible for detailed
measures.

Lenin

Chairman, C.L.D,

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Notes:
[1]
The following text is in Lenin’s hand.— Ed.

[2]
Written in connection with a complaint of the People’s
Commissar for Food of the Ukraine, M. K. Vladimirov, over the
unsatisfactory supply of the Ukraine with goods and the lack of sacks
which slowed down the procurement of grain in the Ukraine.

On June 1, a telegram signed by Lenin was sent to Vyazniki
(Shuya Uyezd, Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia) on the dispatch
of 500,000 food sacks to the Ukraine by uyezd factories within
a week.