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Lenin

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ASSIGNMENT TO SECRETARY AND TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV

Send this telephone message to Bryukhanov

I have been informed that the collection of the tax in kind is proceeding with remarkable ease and speed in Orel
and Tula gubernias, Preobrazhensky, who has been to Orel
Gubernia, assures me that the whole tax in kind will be
brought in within three weeks. Please let me know in a few
words what your information is, and how frequently you have been receiving telegrams about the collection of the
tax in kind. The model gubernias or uyezds will have to be
specially rewarded.

What measures are being taken to concentrate the salt stock and also to see that the salt is not sold otherwise
than for grain either in the R.S.F.S.R. or the Ukraine.
Perhaps we should also limit the issue of salt in the towns,
to hamper the anarchic exchange of goods for salt.

Lenin

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