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4) Employees of the Cheka and its local bodies are transferred in the amount of 50% of their staff composition to the frontline Red Army ration, the remaining employees are assigned to the rear Red Army ration. Supply is carried out through the appropriate bodies.
5) With regard to clothing supply, employees of the Cheka and its local bodies are equated:
a) employees of the TCheka
and operational departments of the Cheka—to Red Army soldiers of field active units, b) the rest—to the administrative staff of active units.
6) Employees of the Cheka and its local bodies, when traveling on duty, are granted the right to use "requisition" forms for travel by rail and waterways on the same basis as military personnel.
7) The Cheka and its bodies are obliged to keep lists of their employees in the form approved by the Council of Labor and Defense on February 4, 1920, informing local provincial military commissars of general numerical summaries by age groups.
8) This resolution does not in any way change the general resolution of the VII Congress of Soviets on the procedure for the subordination of local Cheka bodies exclusively to the higher and central Cheka bodies.
Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the origi- nal, signed by V.I. Lenin with his note:
"Approved in the Council of Defense September 17."

DRAFT RESOLUTION
ON THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF PARTY
CONSTRUCTION *
September 24, 1920
Not to replace, but to supplement the letter of the Central Committee and the resolution of the Moscow Committee, as
ma-terial:
* The draft written by V.I. Lenin was the basis of the resolution "On the Immediate Tasks of Party Construction" adopted by the All-Russian Conference of the RCP (b) on September 22-25, 1920 (see "VKP(b) in Resolutions", part I, 1940, pp. 349-353). Lenin's manuscript has not been fully preserved.

The unprecedentedly difficult situation of the Soviet republic in the first years of its existence, the extreme devastation and the greatest military danger made it inevitable to single out "shock" (and therefore de facto privileged) departments and groups of workers. This was inevitable, because it was impossible to save a devastated country without concentrating forces and resources on such departments and on such groups of workers, without strengthening which the imperialists of the whole world would surely have crushed us and would not even have allowed our Soviet republic to begin economic construction.
This circumstance, in connection with the laboriously overcome legacy of capitalist and private property habits and attitudes, explains the need to once again direct the attention of the entire party to the struggle for the implementation of...*
... the need for practical, business guarantees that the decisions of the party, unanimous on the above fundamental issues, do not remain only on paper. Therefore, the conference proposes
to the Central Committee to immediately order, implement and, moreover, propose to the next party congress to confirm the following:
(1) the unconditional obligation of more frequent and broader meetings of party members along with other measures
to develop the initiative of party members; (2) to create literary organs capable of carrying out more systematically and widely criticism of party errors and criticism within the party in general (discussion leaflets, etc.);
(3) to develop fully precise practical rules on measures to eliminate such inequality (in living conditions,
in the amount of earnings, etc.) between "specialists" and responsible workers, on the one hand, and the masses, on the other hand—inequality that violates democratism and
is a source of disintegration of the party and a decrease in the authority of communists;
(4) to recognize the need to create a control commission
along with the Central Committee, which should consist of comrades having the greatest party training, the most experienced,
impartial and capable of exercising strict party control. The control commission, elected by the party congress, should have the right to accept any complaints and investigate them, entering into an agreement with the Central Committee, if necessary, arranging joint general meetings with it, or transferring the issue to the party congress.
Lenin

* One page of the manuscript is missing.

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NOTE TO G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY
To Comrade G. M. Krzhizhanovsky
September 26, 1920
Gleb Maksimilianovich! Please return this to me after reading pp. 20-21, with a few words.
Your Lenin
COMMENTS ON GOELRO BULLETIN No. 5

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...Undoubtedly, in the early stages, as is currently done throughout Europe and America, we have to pay special attention to the rational use of existing
electrical equipment. It is difficult to overestimate the importance that the accelerated full-scale launch of our
main existing power plants, the joint operation of a group of stations, and the rational use of electrical networks can have at the present time.
Recently, we have observed a widespread trend in our province to build new small stations, especially when there is an opportunity to use some
water energy. No matter how vital this trend may be, we must not
forget that the decisive factor in the expedient electrification is
NB
only large regional stations...
21
... Currently, the work is three-quarters completed, and from mid-July we are starting to finalize it for submission of a relevant report to the Council of People's Commissars. And only when this work is fully completed, I will be able to give you a more concrete outline of what
we mean when we talk about the electrification of agriculture,
industry and transport in Russia, bearing in mind a certain sequence
of works covering approximately the next ten years.
Here is the question: so far, in all five
№ of the "Bulletin" we have only "schemes" and "plans" distant, but there is nothing near.
What exactly (exactly) is missing to "speed up the launch of existing
power plants"?
That's the crux of the matter. And not a word about it.
What's missing? Workers? Skilled workers?
Machines? Metal? Fuel? What else?
"Plan" to get everything missing must be immediately drawn up
and published.
Lenin