V. I. Lenin

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

I am sending you a specimen of our damnable red tape and stupidity!

And these are our best people—Pyatakov, Morozov and others!

They would have ruined the job if it hadn’t been for the whip.

I earnestly request you to make a special effort, to hit the guilty ones still harder and
to secure (through Gorbunov and Lepeshinskaya, whom I told to prepare the decree of 30.X.1920, etc., for you) immediate fulfilment. Give Gidrotorf if not 100%, then 90%.

Yours, Lenin