V. I.

Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO M. I. KALININ AND L. B. KAMENEV

Kalinin has told me of the idea to make a special collection of one pound per pood of collected grain in aid of
the starving in the Volga area, Let me know whether this
matter has been pushed through and when you intend to have it passed by the Presidium of the All-Russia
C.E.C. [1] I think we should: 1) have this passed at once;

2) demand, as a matter of the greatest urgency, that each
uyezd should send a few carloads of grain to the Volga area, and that every consignment of grain must be
accompanied by two or three local peasants who will see for
themselves the scale of the disaster and tell their fellow peasants
about it;
3) we should consider the institution of some kind
of order or honorary cross for intensified assistance to the
starving in the Volga area.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.P.C.