V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

November 21, 1918.

Petrograd
Smolny, to Zinoviev

Today I sent a severe reprimand to the Technical Committee of the Northern Regional Economic Council for red tape. Explain to the Northern Regional Economic Council that it is its duty to expedite the experiments and to help in the speedy fulfilment of the assignments of the Scientific and Technical Department of the Supreme Economic Council. If, however, the document of the Technical Committee of November 13, No. 646, is not only red tape and obtuseness, but malicious sabotage, I demand an investigation and the arrest of the guilty persons.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars,
Lenin