1919. TELEGRAM TO THE KURSK EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

First published on January 11, 1919 in the newspaper Volna (Kursk) No. 5. Sent from Moscow to Kursk. Printed from the original. · page 499

January 6, 1919

Kursk
Cheka

Copy to the Gubernia Executive Committee

Immediately arrest Kogan, a member of the Kursk Central Purchasing Board, for refusing to help 120 starving workers from Moscow and sending them away empty-handed. This to be published in the newspapers and by leaflet, so that all employees of the central purchasing boards and food organisations should know that formal and bureaucratic attitudes to work and incapacity to help starving workers will earn severe reprisals, up to and including shooting.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars