261. TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO B. S. STOMONYAKOV[1]
Orders for the Kashira electric-power station are of especial importance. There is a C.C. decision on the unconditional need to accelerate this matter, so as to have the station started with 12,000 kw not later than December of this year. Find out about these orders everything you can before you leave, and upon your arrival in Berlin take all steps to speed and check up on accurate execution. I regard this as your personal responsibility. Please telegraph me from Berlin about the measures you take, when exactly the orders will be ready, and when exactly they will be delivered in Moscow.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
Notes
[1] For the draft of this telephone message see Lenin Miscellany XX, pp. 214–15.—Ed.