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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO L. B. KRASIN

Comrade Krasin

I have received a copy of your letter to Dzerzhinsky concerning shipbuilding. I agree with you that we should
not now build seagoing steamships. I believe that military
considerations indicate the same thing. It is undoubtedly
necessary to intensify the construction of tankers for the
oil fleet, especially in the Caspian Sea and on the Volga.
I ask you to:

1) request an official Gosplan opinion on this matter;

2) ratify a precise decision at an official conference of
the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade and the
People’s Commissariat for Railways, and, if there is any
other department concerned, include it as well.

Lenin

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