Telegram to V. V. Kurayev, August 10, 1918

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August 10, 1918

Kurayev

Gubernia Executive Committee

Penza

Have received your telegram, passed it on to Sverdlov and reached agreement with him.

All measures will be taken.

Essential to crush the kulak rising with the greatest energy, speed and ruthlessness, drawing part of the troops from Penza, confiscating all the property of the rebel kulaks and all their grain. Telegraph more frequently how this is going.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars