V. I.   Lenin

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UNDERLININGS AND AN INSTRUCTION ON I. N. SMIRNOV’S TELEGRAM

Written: Written on July 11, 1920
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 402^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Lenin
Kremlin
Moscow
Copy to Tsyurupa, People’s Commissariat for Food

Omsk, July 9. Half of the Altai and Tomsk gubernias are in the grip of a kulak movement which we are suppressing by force of arms. The cause of the insurrection is lack of commodities. From the insurgent kulaks we are confiscating grain, the whole of which has not been threshed. Work hands should be sent out urgently to thresh and load; unless you send workers we shall not be able to take the grain. A minimum of 7,000 is required at once for the Altai alone. If you are late, the opportunity will be lost. Ascertain the possibility and inform us; if you cannot send them, we shall immediately cancel the order for confiscation, because the kulaks will burn grain that is unthreshed and unguarded.

Smirnov
Chairman of the Siberian
Revolutionary Committee

I insist on all possible help. Directive from the C.C.— make every haste. We are sending people.

Tsyurupa, Schmidt (Commissariat for Labour) and Chief Labour Committee:

Send at once, extremely urgent, exert every effort.

Lenin

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