[regarding food supply matters for work in the Soviet food supply organs, recruit combat detachments of honest, incorruptible, resolute revolutionaries, loyal defenders of the interests of workers and peasants. Immediately detain provocateurs and agents of counter-revolution and send them to Moscow. Remember firmly: either we shall emerge with organization and honor from all the unprecedented difficulties that have crashed down upon our heads, or else everything is inevitably doomed to complete destruction. There is no third option. The Council of People's Commissars, awaiting the near results of these measures, requests of you, comrade workers, revolutionary firmness and consciousness for the salvation of the conquests of the revolution and the triumph of the proletarian dictatorship.] [No. 386]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)