V. I. Lenin

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

Please send me the briefest, but accurate, business-like, factual report on what has been done and where as a result of the health week. Is there even one gubernia where anything has been done intelligently?

Further. What is being done (and what has been done?) in Moscow? Who is responsible for the work? Are there only “officials” with a pompous Soviet title, who understand damn all, know nothing about the work, and merely sign papers? Or are there business-like managers? Who exactly?

To secure personal responsibility is the most important thing.

What has been done to secure personal responsibility?

Through whom is the check-up made?

Through inspectors? How many are there? Who are they?

Through youth (Y.C.L.) detachments? Are there any? How many? Where and how have they proved themselves?

What other means of real check-up are there?

Is money being spent on the purchase of valuable things (carbolic acid? cleaning implements? how much has been bought?) or on the upkeep of new “official” idlers?

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Izvestia* No. 18
First published in full in 1933
in *Lenin Miscellany* XXIII

First published, not in full,
on January 22, 1927, in the newspaper
*Izvestia*

Printed from the manuscript