158. ASSIGNMENT TO C.P.C. SECRETARY[1]
Enter on C.P.C. agenda, sending a copy to Bryukhanov at once (if he has not yet got it) or giving him this copy until tonight—to obtain his opinion. We must rob the others but give these what they ask.
10/V. Lenin
Notes
[1] This is written on a report to the C.P.C. from Y. A. Preobrazhensky, Chief of the Central Administration for Vocational Training under the People’s Commissariat for Education, who pointed out that a reduction, under the C.P.C. commission’s decision, in the number of rations for his administration during the spring and summer months of 1921 down to 110,000, would result in a closure of classes at many educational establishments, and asked the C.P.C. to increase the number of rations.