391. To KH. G. RAKOVSKY

Written on September 19, 1921 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII. Printed from a typewritten text signed by Lenin. · page 302

Comrade Rakovsky, Kharkov
Copy to Comrade Vladimirov

The People’s Commissariat for Food of the R.S.F.S.R. has remitted to you bank-notes worth 20,000 million rubles, of which 10 are for Kiev, and 10 for Kharkov for the purchase of grain and cattle. We intend in the near future to send to you, over and above the Ukrainian monetary allocation, regular monetary remittances up to 50,000 million a month for the special designation of grain purchases. The R.C.P. Central Committee proposes that you should: 1) firmly reserve these remitted amounts for the said purpose under the personal responsibility of all organs of the People’s Commissariat for Finance; 2) bind the food organs, on the responsibility of the Ukrainian Commissariat for Food and gubernia food supply commissars, to expend the remitted resources exclusively for the purchase of grain and cattle. The R.C.P. Central Committee proposes that you should enter the R.S.F.S.R. Council of People’s   Commissars decree of August 23 in your register, with the addition of the All-Russia C.E.C.’s on the salt monopoly.

Lenin
Chairman, C.L.D.