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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO ALL REGIONAL AND GUBERNIA ECONOMIC CONFERENCES [1]

S.E.C. Chairman for all Departments and Branches of Industry, Copy to Central Statistical Board

One of the most important tasks of economic construction, and undoubtedly the most pressing one just now, is
to reduce the number of establishments and enterprises on
state supply. Only a minimum of the largest, the best equipped and organised enterprises, factories, plants and
mines should be left on state supply, with strict verification of available resources. You are hereby ordered
immediately to carry out another check-up and to make another
reduction in the number of enterprises on state supply;
draw up right away a list of enterprises being left on state
supply, and send it on to the C.L.D. by October 1 of this
year.

Execution shall be the personal responsibility of all members of economic councils, especially the Gubernia
Statistical Bureaus. I shall prosecute those who fail to
make sufficiently thorough reduction in the number of enterprises.

Lenin

Chairman, C.L.D.

September 12, 1921