V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET
COPIES TO SOROKIN, THE GUBERNIA STATISTICAL BUREAU, THE GUBERNIA ECONOMIC COUNCIL AND THE GUBERNIA TRADE UNION COUNCIL

1. The information submitted to me today by Sorokin regarding the 30% reduction arouses very great doubts as to its correctness. 73

2. There is equal doubt as to the correctness of the way the reduction is being carried out, in the sense that the groups that should have been reduced have not been reduced. What should have been reduced are enterprises and institutions that are not absolutely essential.

3. Sorokin’s reference to the alleged absence of data on the groups of enterprises and institutions that are not absolutely essential shows that things are in an extremely unsatisfactory state in the Gubernia Statistical Bureau, the Gubernia Trade Union Council and the Gubernia Economic Council.

I request that exact data and exact explanations be submitted for tomorrow’s meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars (July 26, 1921).

LENIN