V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTE TO P. A. KOZMIN¹

January 2, 1918] December 20, 1917

Comrade Kozmin!

Yesterday I waited for you to talk over the matter of the delegates from the Second Steel-Casting Plant near Kamenskaya Station. They request that financing be stopped and that the Commission, which they consider reactionary and parasitic, be removed. If we do not see each other this evening, please telephone me.

Lenin

After the October Revolution, Lenin, having taken note of the “Special Conference on Defence,” which controlled many plants and factories and distributed huge advances to them, instructed N. I. Podvoisky, as People’s Commissar for Military Affairs, to assume the chairmanship of this conference, and P. A. Kozmin, as an engineer, to be his deputy. Lenin took an extraordinary interest in the work of the “Special Conference” and daily demanded reports, in person or by telephone, on the progress of the work, while at the same time sending to Podvoisky or Kozmin the workers’ delegations that came to the Council of People’s Commissars with notes or telephone warnings (see P. A. Kozmin, “V. I. Lenin and the Specialists,” *Soviet Milling and Bread-Baking*, No. 8, November 1927).