364. TELEGRAM TO KH. G. RAKOVSKY

Written on June 11, 1919 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original and the text of the telegraph form. · page 252

Rakovsky
Council of People’s Commissars
Kiev

On June 3, I sent the following telegram to Schlichter: “Earnestly request you not to hold up consignments for the Byelorussian-Lithuanian army and generally for the Food Commissariat, Minsk, and to dispatch them to destination in Minsk. Accelerate this in every way. Further, it is necessary to increase relief for Petrograd. Please wire me fulfilment of both assignments twice weekly. Lenin, Chairman, C.P.C.”

Please 1) investigate the reasons for non-receipt of this telegram and prosecute the guilty parties; 2) discuss most urgently emergency measures to aid Petrograd with food and to collect what was promised; appoint a comrade   in each volost responsible for fulfilment of this. I await a reply.

Lenin