V. I.

Lenin

434

To:   M. L. RUKHIMOVICH [1]

11/X.

Comrade Rukhimovich:

I have read your report and am cursing you most severely.

The report is done carelessly. Why not take 2 or 3 hours
here in Moscow (if you had no time in the Donbas) to put
it into good shape ?

It is unfinished and unclear.

The required table is not there, but the report itself is
cluttered up with figures.

There is need for a short table: the price in terms of flour or in gold rubles, etc.

1,000  poods of coal net at the pit head or at the station,
etc.

Before the war...——– Now at the Central Board of the Coal Industry————— (big pits).

There again, on the condition you mentioned (complete success of the whole programme of collective
supply?)———— At small pits of leaseholders———– The whole point is to have such a table!

Yet that is the one you have failed to give.

All your tables should he in a special little chapter, giving the details and precise proof of the main and basic
table.

Furthermore, there is no clear statement: the authorities (name, record, rank?) say the small pits are harmful.

So-and-so (names, etc.) are against this.

This is important, but it has been glossed over.

Thirdly, the conclusion? You should take what is controversial.

The leasing of small pits?

This is now beyond doubt.

In your report this is slurred, over and it is not clear
what now remains controversial.

Apparently, it is that:

1) whether or not there is need right away for repairs
on a number ( such-and-such? names ) of big pits, and their
stoppage for repairs with transfer of their targets to the
small pits?

2) The leasing of medium pits as well?

3)—– precisely through the Donets Economic
Conference?

There is no clear statement about this. I or any other person reading the report has to complete it in your stead .

That is the way to ruin even a good case!

To clear things up we would need your plan : close down
for repairs so and so. Within two years (or how many?)
to have small pits yield 900 million, etc.

With communist greetings, Lenin