Date: 1921-10-12
Source: ru:PSS/v53

Source: PSS, Volume 53

To all pre‑provincial economic conferences, pre‑regional economic conferences
Rostov-on-Don, Regional Economic Council
Novonikolaevsk, Siberian Economic Council
Kharkiv, Ukrainian Economic Council

To all Councils of People’s Commissars of the autonomous republics, for your information:
Copies to the People’s Commissariat for Food, the Supreme Council of National Economy, the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade, and the Central Union

At its meeting on October 7, the Defense Council resolved to prohibit state institutions and enterprises from engaging in any sales whatsoever—except for those transactions explicitly authorized by laws governing percentage-based allocations. In order to safeguard the state commodity reserve for the systematic implementation of commodity exchanges through the designated authorities—the People’s Commissariat for Food and the Central Union—and to put an end to instances where production agencies sell goods intended to supply the Red Army, I hereby propose that you, under your personal responsibility, ensure strict compliance with the aforementioned resolution and refrain from permitting production agencies to sell any goods or commodities except those specifically authorized by resolutions and decrees concerning the allocation of natural resources.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, V. I. Lenin

text signed by

V. I. Lenin

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Written on October 12, 1921.

First published in 1959.

In the Lenin Collection, Volume XXXVI

Printed from typewritten copy