V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM
ON REGULATING MILITARY TRANSPORT
October 15, 1920

Owing to the extreme shortage of rolling-stock on the R.S.F.S.R. railway network and the consequent need for particularly careful use of it for loading, in pursuance of the decision of the Council of Labour and Defence of October 13 of this year, I propose for exact fulfilment: 1) immediately take the most energetic measures to unload military freight on all railways of the front; 2) take all measures to ensure that military transport within the front is unconditionally carried out in accordance with the approved plans of the V.S.P.*, permitting its increase exclusively on the demand of military circumstances and on the indispensable condition of preliminary coordination of this increase with the corresponding railway organs. It is proposed to submit weekly reports to the V.S.P. under the Council of People’s Commissars on the progress of unloading rolling-stock.

Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence
Lenin