Letter to Aleksandr Smirnov, Grigory Petrovsky and Isidore Gukovsky, June 28, 1918

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28/VI. 1918

Comrade Smirnov

or Petrovsky, People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs,

and Comrade Gukovsky, People’s Commissar for Finance

I strongly recommend the bearer, Comrade Semyon Ivanovich Lebedev, Chairman of the Temnikov Soviet, Tambov Gubernia.

He asks for a loan of 1 1/2 million. From his account it is evident that affairs in the uyezd are exemplary. A most instructive example of a model uyezd where the kulaks have in actual fact been ousted from all the Soviets. In my opinion, such an uyezd should be given priority assistance.

Lenin