258. TELEGRAM TO THE SIMBIRSK UYEZD CONGRESS OF SOVIETS

Written on July 18 or 19, 1921 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from notes in Lydia Fotieva’s hand and signed by Lenin. · page 214

Twelfth Simbirsk Uyezd Congress of Soviets
Simbirsk

This is to inform you that the Soviet Government is taking the most urgent and resolute measures to render   assistance to those who have suffered from the crop failure. Collections have been started everywhere. On 12/VII the All-Russia Central Executive Committee appealed to the whole population of Russia to do everything to help the starving. A special famine relief committee has been set up under the All-Russia C.E.C. A similar committee has been set up to obtain assistance in the form of grain from abroad. Authorised representatives of the All-Russia C.E.C. are leaving for your parts within a few days. We are doing everything we can.

Lenin
Chairman, C.L.D.