LENIN’S NOTE.
Tsyurupa.
Five days spent exchanging telegrams with Zinoviev— who had long been inquiring where to dispatch the detachments— and another day devoted to loading the goods (1 day??).
This is an utterly monstrous amount of red tape. Appoint ten scoundrel officials from the Comprod, and demand that they complete everything within four days—or else face settlement of accounts and prosecution.
1 A. G. Pravdin—Deputy People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs.
2 G. E. Zinoviev—In 1918, Chairman of the Petrograd Commune.
The documents printed below constitute the “Plan for a Report on the Current Situation” and the draft resolution accompanying the report, presented at the IV Conference of Trade Unions and Factory–Workshop Committees of Moscow on June 27, 1948 (see Works, vol. XXIII, pp. 77–94 and p. 402). The draft resolution, whose initial manuscript has not survived, is reproduced here in its original Leninist redaction, with amendments introduced by Lenin into the draft noted in footnotes. The final version of the resolution, as amended, fully corresponds to the definitive edition in which the resolution was published (see Works, vol. XXIII, p. 402). For the history of the resolution’s formulation and adoption at the conference, see Works, vol. XXIII, p. 544, note 7.