V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW35; ru:PSS/v52;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

6/XI.

G. M.!

This is a very important matter. Our Commission 1 (you have been summoned to it, haven’t you, by the previous decision?) will meet tomorrow (or on the morning of 8/XI).

We must carefully discuss in advance the draft (enclosed) of the sub-commission.

GOELRO is not included at all!

In my opinion, this is wrong: what are all “plans” (and all “planning commissions” and “planning programmes”) worth without a plan of electrification? They are worth nothing.

Strictly speaking, GOELRO should be the single planning body under the Council of People’s Commissars, but this will not get through if put so bluntly and crudely, and it would not be correct either. We must think out (urgently, before tomorrow) how the question should be posed.

Perhaps: 1) the chairman of GOELRO should be given a consultative vote in the economic department of the Small Council of People’s Commissars?

2) GOELRO should be made a permanent commission under the Council of People’s Commissars, because it prepares and carries out, and must carry out, electrification for the Supreme Council of National Economy, the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture, the People’s Commissariat of Railways, etc.

3) all planning commissions under all People’s Commissariats should be linked and subordinated to GOELRO. But how?

Should another commission be set up under GOELRO consisting of the chairmen of all the separate planning commissions? Or in some other way?

Ring me up after reading this.

And return the minutes (of the sub-commission of 5/XI) today not later than 10 p.m.

Yours, Lenin