244. TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 186

10. I. 1919

Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd

From my talks with Ravich and Kalinin, and from Shadurskaya’s telegram I gather that nine-tenths of the top machinery of government in Petrograd are engaged in doing nothing. I advise you to think over and urgently carry out a reorganisation, by transferring tens, if not hundreds, of the best people to actual control of transport, with you yourself heading the actual control of the food trains. Otherwise there is no salvation.

Lenin