V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

8. VI. 1920

To Member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs, Comrade Vollenberg
Copy to Comrade Lyubovich

Comrade Vollenberg,

About a week ago I gave Comrade Belenky (of the Cheka) a request addressed to you to have a telephone line repaired, which Comrade Belenky would point out.

The line is still working extremely badly: 50 versts worse than 600–750, Petrograd and Kharkov!!

It looks as though organisation and discipline in the matter of telephone communications are extremely bad.

I request you to send me:

1) a copy of your first instruction about putting this telephone line in order (and connecting it directly with the switchboard on the third floor in the Kremlin, in the Council of People’s Commissars);
2) a copy of the repeated instruction which I ask you to issue immediately;
3) an indication of the names and surnames (as well as the posts) of the persons responsible for carrying out the instruction, and also for constant supervision over the proper working of the telephone line. I request you to inform all these persons that for any defect I shall call them to account under the laws of martial law.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)