If a directive from the Central Committee is still needed, send the draft of the entire text of the directive.

Return this to the Administrative Department of the Council of People's Commissars.

Lenin

3/IX.

Gomel, to the Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee Pestun

I propose that you carry out the directives of Svidersky and Reske with the utmost precision. I have information about a number of violations by you of the rules of the central authority in the area of work of the People's Commissariat for Food.

I warn that I will hold you personally responsible if even one violation of the decrees and rules of the centre is established, and if you do not establish correct and harmonious work together with Reske. Reply in two words by telegram and in detail by letter.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence Lenin

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Written on 3 September 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript