FOOD DISTRIBUTION

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Lenin.

NOTES TO N. P. GORBUNOV.
I.
To
N. P. Gorbunov
11/IX [1921]
Check: there does belong to be a letter from him.

II**.
To
N. P. Gorbunov
23/IX [1921]
Find out what this is (answer to?) and tell me1.
Lenin.
The note was prompted by a letter from A. P. Smirnov, who set out his opinion
on the question of compulsory exchange of goods, of which he
was the initiator.
*

III.
3/Х [1921]
Comrade Gorbunov!
I asked Ponomarenko and I am waiting for an answer from him, and not from
A. Smirnov.
Lenin*.

IV.
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8. X. [1921]
Comrade Gorbunov! Read and tell me what is urgent here 1.
Lenin.
1 It concerns the distribution of 350,000 rations for 1921/22 for Soviet
employees.

DRAFT TELEGRAM TO ALL OBLAST AND GUBERNIA ECONOMIC CONFERENCES **\
[September 12, 1921]
One of the most important tasks of economic construction
and undoubtedly the most pressing now is — reducing the number
* The note was written by
Lenin on a telegram from Ponomarenko dated
September 9. Ed.
** The note is written at the top of a letter from A. P. Smirnov. Ed.
\ The title is Lenin’s. At the top, in L. A. Fotieva’s handwriting is noted: "To Bog
danov, Bryukhanov and Avanesov for urgent feedback." This telegram copy (arch. No. 2765) is marked No. 01119 and dated: September 13, 1921. Ed.