Comrade Semashko!

I am increasingly receiving reports about the deplorable state of our resorts in Crimea and the Caucasus: bribery, privileges for the bourgeoisie amid outrageous treatment of workers, and above all, complete disorder in medical care and, most importantly, a total lack of food supplies.

Please provide me with precise information that you have at hand immediately.

* See this volume, document 265. Ed.

TO THE OFFICE MANAGEMENT OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS. SEPTEMBER 13, 1921.

And then - on the methods of verification in more detail: how many resorts (out of how many?) submit correct reports (amount of food per number of patients? for the staff, etc.?) - number of baths (mud) and so on.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)