To Comrade Bryukhanov or His Deputy

Please receive out of turn the bearer, Comrade Shelomovich, a former member of the Collegium [of the People's Commissariat] of Ways of Communication, with an important report on the food supply abuses in the Urals.
(Please inform me of the result this evening at the Council of People's Commissars.)

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

First published in 1958 in the journal "History of the USSR" No. 2
Printed from the manuscript

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Comrade Bryukhanov! Has Shelomovich been to see you (I gave him a note for you). He says that the abuses with bread in the Urals are terrible. What emergency measures could be taken? 226

Lenin

Written on December 7, 1918

Published for the first time, from the manuscript