V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

If, after creating trusts and enterprises on a cost-accounting basis, we are unable to safeguard our interests fully in a businesslike, merchant-like manner, we shall prove to be utter fools.

The Supreme Economic Council must keep an eye on this, but still more the People’s Commissariat for Finance through the State Bank and through special inspectors, for it is precisely the People’s Commissariat for Finance, not being directly interested, that is obliged to establish effective, real control and verification.

Lenin

Dictated over the telephone

February 1, 1922

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