V. I.

Lenin

660

To:   THE COMRADES WORKING AT GIDROTORF

With my help you have now obtained what you need for your
works. [1]

For all our poverty and wretchedness, you have been allocated large amounts over and above
those issued earlier.

You must make quite sure:

1. that nothing is done to no purpose,

2. that you do not bite off more than the allocated
resources allow,

3. that the experiments you stage should be backed up
with all possible proof and should produce final answers
on the practical and economic fitness of the new method
of extracting peat,

4. to devote special attention to accounting for the
expenditure of the amounts allocated to you.

The accounting should be arranged in such a way as to make it possible to judge about the cost of the peat
extracted.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
See Document 624 of this volume.— Ed.