V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v52;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Rostov-on-Don. To Frumkin, Markov

In view of the extremely acute food situation in the Republic, especially in connection with the temporary interruption of grain supplies from Siberia, heroic measures must be taken to increase and bring to the maximum the loading and dispatch of grain to the centre from the North Caucasus. The altogether exceptional importance which the Caucasus has now acquired imposes exceptional responsibility upon you and all food and transport workers in the Caucasus. I once again confirm the necessity of dispatching 200 carloads daily to the centre. In addition to the information you furnish on actual loading, report to me personally and to the People’s Commissariat for Food every day by direct line: 1) the amount of grain brought in, separately for the stations; 2) separately for the attached warehouses; 3) the amount of grain brought by cartage to the stations in the past twenty-four hours.

Chairman, Council of Defence, Lenin