V. I. Lenin

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

In view of the great strictness in the Political Bureau, this must be watched—especially on holidays. 218. In my opinion, when

* This refers to V. I. Lenin’s book “Left-Wing” Communism, an Infantile Disorder, published by the State Publishing House in Petrograd in June 1920 (see Collected Works, Vol. 31, pp. 17-118). Ed.

leaving (i.e., if it becomes necessary, in special cases, to go away) an arrangement should be made with the telephone operators so that they have the home telephone number and, in an extreme case, it would be possible to connect (by telephone) with the home: then the control will not be able to say that it did not find the secretary.

I repeat: after thinking it over (and applying care), it can be so arranged that the control will not be able to say: “did not find the secretary.”

Night duty for secretaries has not been introduced, has it? If so, the night telephone operators must be adapted.

1920