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TELEGRAM TO THE SIMBIRSK UYEZD CONGRESS OF SOVIETS

Twelfth Simbirsk Uyezd Congress of Soviets

Simbirsk

This is to inform you that the Soviet Government is taking the most urgent and resolute measures to render assistance to those who have suffered from the crop failure.
Collections have been started everywhere. On 12/VII the
All-Russia Central Executive Committee appealed to the whole population of Russia to do everything to help the
starving. A special famine relief committee has been set
up under the All-Russia C.E.C. A similar committee has been set up to obtain assistance in the form of grain from
abroad. Authorised representatives of the All-Russia C.E.C.
are leaving for your parts within a few days. We are doing
everything we can.

Lenin
Chairman, C.L.D.

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