468. TELEGRAM TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original. · page 309

11. XI. 1919

Bryukhanov, Chairman, Special Food Commission of the
Eastern Front

Supplies for the starving workers of the Urals are urgently needed. Report what you have done, how much you have provided, and whether these workers can be sent out to collect grain beyond Kurgan. Your complaints about being short-handed are rather strange.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence