V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OF THE ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF THE NORTHERN AREA

21. XI. 1918

Technical Committee
Northern Economic Council
Petrograd

I severely reprimand you for procrastination and non-fulfilment of the directive of the Science and Technology
Department of the Supreme Economic Council for the delivery of materials to the Central Science and Technology
Laboratory of the Military Department. I demand that the
materials be issued immediately and that every assistance
be given in accelerating the experiments. Report fulfilment. [1]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
This telegram was in response to a complaint Lenin received from
N. P. Gorbunov, head of the Science and Technology
Department of the Supreme Economic Council, that the Technical
Committee of the Economic Council of the Northern Area was
holding up fulfilment of orders from the Central Science and
Technology Laboratory of the Military Department. At the top of the
document received from Gorbunov, Lenin wrote an instruction to the
secretary: = “Phone Gorbunov and tell him to send today the exact documents concerning the half-month’s delay and copies of papers
from Amosov (head of the Technical Committee of the Economic
Council of the Northern Area.— Ed .). Without the documents
the complaint has no weight. Lenin .” On the left-hand side there