Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

165

To: V. M. MOLOTOV^[1]

Written: Written on May 19, 1921
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 146^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Molotov:

On the strength of the complaint

I propose that Bryukhanov should send a telegram today, signed by the Chairman of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and a C.C. secretary:

1) severe reprimand to the heads(chairmen of the gubernia executive committees, etc.),

2) threat of prosecution,

3) prosecution at onceof those responsible for local issuesbefore meeting central requirements.

Lenin

Notes

[1] This was written in connection with a report sent in on May 18, 1921, by N. P. Bryukhanov and A. B. Khalatov to the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee and Lenin. Reporting that, despite the measures being taken by the People’s Commissariat for Food, Party and government bodies in Siberia, the Northern Caucasus and the Ukraine were violating the Politbureau decision of May 7, 1921, concerning the rates of daily dispatch of grain to the centre and the satisfaction of regional requirements only after these rates have been met, Bryukhanov and Khalatov proposed that leading workers in these regions should be influenced by measures of Party discipline.