Comrade Molotov! I have just learned from Rykov that the professors (of the Moscow Higher Technical School) still do not know the (yesterday's) decision.¹

This is an outrage, a monstrous delay. I will raise the question of the Central Committee apparatus at the Politburo. This simply cannot go on.

Yesterday the draft of Lunacharsky's statement was ready.² It absolutely had to be announced yesterday.

It is necessary that you immediately give orders to do everything and check whether it has been carried out.

It is necessary to check and to speed things up.

The delay is inadmissible.

Lenin