V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

10/VII.

Comrade Bryukhanov!

I have received a letter from Lobachev dated 9/VII pointing to a sharp deterioration in the supply of Petrograd and Moscow. He asks for instructions.

In my opinion, you should work out measures to intensify the work. I propose:

1) in an especially urgent, shock, revolutionary manner, immediately press hard for the collection of the tax in Moscow Gubernia (the rye has already been reaped). Mobilise for this purpose Moscow workers in particular to help the food agencies;

2) generally mobilise more workers for food work, robbing the other commissariats in accordance with yesterday’s decision of the Political Bureau (get a copy of it); 23

3) send precise orders once again to the Ukrainian and Siberian People’s Commissariats for Food;

4) despatch an emergency expedition (together with the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies) to Podolsk Gubernia, where, they say, there is an abundance of grain and it costs 6,000 rubles a pood in Soviet money.

I. T. SMILGA. JULY 10, 1921.

(Generally speaking, my impression is that the People’s Commissariat for Food is disgracefully slack and backward in purchasing and commodity exchange. There is no initiative. There is no bold work.)

With Communist greetings, Lenin

Please reply to me on 11/VII.