V. I.

Lenin

588

To:   V. A. SMOLYANINOV

17.I.1922

Comrade Smolyaninov:

I am sending you G. D. Tsyurupa’s reports. [1]

This is shocking red tape.

The work of the People’s Commissariat for Railways is wretched.

And to think that this is for Kashira, an establishment
of exceptional importance! An establishment about which
there is a special Politbureau directive, concerning the
obligatory nature of all sorts of pressure and acceleration!
And to think that this should happen after dozens of telegrams, etc., from me about Kashira!

What, in that case, happens to the ordinary freight?
Apparently something quite crazy!

I propose to you:

1) to start proceedings for red tape, and take the case
all the way to the strictest punishment;

2) put pressure on the P.C.R. and, apart from the trial ,
secure measures for enhancing responsibility and improving the work.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.L.D.