V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v36;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

INSTRUCTION TO LOCAL AUTHORITY ORGANS
November 2, 1918

In view of several cases of [constant]* interference by local authority organs in the economic-administrative functions of the managements of nationalised enterprises, and of cases observed of the alienation of national property belonging to individual enterprises for the satisfaction of local needs, which disorganises their economy and deprives the management of the possibility of conducting work according to plan, [the Council of People’s Commissars decrees:] I emphatically repeat, with a warning of the strictest responsibility in case of non-fulfilment: nationalised enterprises are the common property of the Soviet Republic and the managements are responsible for the economic conduct of their affairs; therefore, local authority organs have no right (unless it is granted them by special decisions of the Central authority) to interfere in their instructions or to alienate any property whatsoever belonging to nationalised enterprises without the permission of the higher organs of administration of the given branch of production.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin)