TO ALL WORKING PEOPLE.
The Anglo-French counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie's intensifying attack day by day on the free, peace-loving Russian Soviet Republic deprives the worker-peasant government of the opportunity to strictly and systematically wage the struggle against hunger: world robbers have cut off the grain-growing provinces from the Russian Republic, intensified and exacerbated the internal civil war. The raids of sharks and robbers of world imperialism are accompanied by the growth of impudence of the Russian counter-revolution, which is raising its head again with the active participation of agents of world imperialism and again organizing treacherous uprisings within the Soviet Republic at the terrible moment experienced by our socialist fatherland. These most criminal uprisings further increase the economic devastation in the country, further exacerbate the hunger of the working masses, and lead to the destruction of the free people.
The answer to the betrayal and treachery of "their own" bourgeoisie must be the strengthening of merciless mass terror against the counter-revolutionary part of it. Everything for the immediate alleviation of the hunger of the working masses! Not an inch of concessions to the enemies of the people! Ruthless extermination of traitors and betrayers who, by intensifying hunger, seek to help world plunderers — such are the immediate and most important practical tasks of the worker-peasant government.
Called upon to heroically struggle against hunger, the working masses must fully implement in practice the dictatorship of the proletariat and the poorest peasantry in the field of food supply, and to this end implement the following measures:
Kulaks and wealthy villagers who have surpluses of grain beyond the amount necessary for sowing fields and personal consumption and who do not take them to collection points or nearby cooperatives must be declared enemies of the people, brought to trial by a revolutionary tribunal, and imprisoned for no less than 10 years, with their property confiscated, and they are forever expelled from their societies.