Telegram to Felix Dzerzhinsky, May 27, 1921

From Marxists-en
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Dzerzhinsky, F. E. (1877–1926)—Party member from 1895. After the October Socialist Revolution he became Chairman of the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (known as the Cheka). In 1921 he was appointed People’s Commissar for Railways, while remaining Chairman of the Cheka and People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs. Member of the CC of the RCP(b).

Urgent

Dzerzhinsky, Chairman, All-Russia Extraordinary

Commission Southern Area (or present whereabouts)

Copy to Voinov, trio for combating the break-up of

transport, Moscow

All the Ukrainian comrades most pressingly insist on intensification of the struggle against profiteering in the Ukraine, which threatens to disorganise the purchases of grain for the famine-stricken centres of the Republic, purchases which have begun and are already showing good results. Please devote particular attention, and inform me whether emergency measures are being taken, what measures in particular and what their results are.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence