V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE BOARD
OF THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT
OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS
June 8, 1920

About a week ago I gave the VChC representative a request addressed to you to repair the telephone line which he would point out to you.

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

It looks as if organisation and discipline in the telephone service are extremely bad.

I request you to send me:

1) a copy of your first order about putting this telephone line in order (and connecting it directly with the switchboard on the 3rd floor in the Kremlin, in the Council of People’s Commissars);

2) a copy of the repeated order which I ask you to issue immediately;

3) the names and surnames (as well as the posts) of the persons responsible for carrying out the orders, and also for constant supervision over the serviceability 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)