V. I.

Lenin

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DIRECTIVES TO THE “ALGEMBA” COMMISSION (NOTED DOWN FROM MEMORY) [1]

28. V.1921

Check up with the utmost precision:

how much work exactly has been done (what part has been finished); how much material, rails, etc., foodstuffs, etc., has
actually been transported to the spot; where they are; the
conditions in which all these materials and the delivered
things are stored; the conditions and the concrete possibilities of returning all these materials, rails and all the rest,
without losses, without stealing, or with minimum losses; the proportion of the possible and probable losses; it is the most important task to carry out this
on-thespot assessment circumstantially and to verify it precisely.

With this problem solved, with the exact data in hand, a conclusion should be drawn up on the substance of the
matter: is the “Algemba” construction to be stopped (if
yes, how? by what date? etc.) or not to be stopped? and
so on, and so forth.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.L.D.