**To the People's Commissar of Food, Comrade Bryukhanov, copy to Comrade Smolyaninov**

It is necessary to accelerate the dispatch of sacks for the Ukrainian People's Commissariat of Food, Comrade Vladimirov, as well as the dispatch of goods for the commodity-exchange fund of Ukraine. Regarding your subsequent directives, I request that you inform me*. Report precisely today and report daily in formal written form exactly what is being done in fact. Personal responsibility of Bryukhanov. Appoint responsible persons for detailed measures.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

*First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the typewritten text, supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin