V. I.

Lenin

391

To:   KH. G. RAKOVSKY

Comrade Rakovsky, Kharkov

Copy to Comrade Vladimirov

The People’s Commissariat for Food of the R.S.F.S.R.
has remitted to you bank-notes worth 20,000 million rubles, of which 10 are for Kiev, and 10 for Kharkov for the
purchase of grain and cattle. We intend in the near future
to send to you, over and above the Ukrainian monetary allocation, regular monetary remittances up to 50,000
million a month for the special designation of grain purchases.
The R.C.P. Central Committee proposes that you should:
1) firmly reserve these remitted amounts for the said
purpose under the personal responsibility of all organs of the
People’s Commissariat for Finance;
2) bind the food organs,
on the responsibility of the Ukrainian Commissariat for
Food and gubernia food supply commissars, to expend the
remitted resources exclusively for the purchase of grain
and cattle. The R.C.P. Central Committee proposes that you should enter the R.S.F.S.R. Council of People’s

Commissars decree of August 23 in your register, with the
addition of the All-Russia C.E.C.’s on the salt monopoly.

Lenin

Chairman, C.L.D.

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