V. I.

Lenin

1. To hoard surpluses of grain and other food products at a
time when the people in Petrograd, in Moscow, and in dozens of
non-agricultural uyezds are not only suffering from a shortage of bread,
but are cruelly starving, is an enormous crime deserving the most ruthless
punishment.

2. The task of fighting famine does not only consist in
pumping grain out of the grain-producing areas, but in having all grain
surpluses, as well as all foodstuffs in general, delivered to and collected
by the state. Unless this is done, there can be no question of any
socialist reforms or of our being able to wage an effective defensive war.

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