Wired: 16 February, 1920
First Published: First published in 1938; Published according to the manuscript
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 30, page 363
Translated: George Hanna
Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters & Robert Cymbala
Copyleft: V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Stalin,
Revolutionary Military Council of the South-Western Front, Kharkov
Priority. By direct line
February 16, 1920
Today I heard you and all the others very clearly, every word. Threaten to shoot the incompetent person in charge of communications who cannot give you, a good amplifier and ensure uninterrupted telephone communication with me. I approve the reduced requisitioning and the obligatory distribution among the poor of a part of the requisitioned grain. You must first of all interest the poor.
Lenin