V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. A. AVANESOV

Comrade Avanesov, Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection

About Red Tape in Supplying the Kashira Site

I am enclosing herewith three letters from the Kashira site. The C.L.D. has been receiving almost daily complaints
from it about red tape and interruption in food supply.
Instead of doing their job, the Kashira builders have been
wasting a considerable part of their energy on getting the
food supply in. We must put a stop to this. Considering
the exceptional conditions created for the Kashira site,
this can well be done even with our stale of food supply
being what it is.

I propose that you should appoint a responsible man with the urgent assignment to investigate the food supply
arrangements for the Kashira site, and find out who is to
blame for the red tape, charge the guilty with responsibility, and, if necessary, work out a draft C.L.D. decision
regulating the supply arrangements for the Kashira site. [1]

Chairman, C.L.D.

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Notes:
[1]
On October 26, 1921, the Council of Labour and Defence heard the question of food supply for the Kashira project and approved a draft decision introduced by V. A. Avanesov.