430. TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS OF THE BYELORUSSIAN S.S.R.

Written on October 10, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from a typewritten text signed by Lenin. · page 329

C.P.C. Chairman, Byelorussia
Copy to Economic Conference

Teumin’s report^[1] at the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade does not answer the C.L.D. inquiry because it fails to give any figures. The Economic Conference of Byelorussia has been sending formalistic or unsatisfactory replies to the C.P.C. business manager’s telegrams 01090 of September 8; 01134 of September 14; 01161 of September 19; 01204 of October 1 and 01220 of October 5. Please   at once demand and obtain these telegrams from the economic conference, investigate the matter, and prosecute those guilty of red tape and sabotage. The required report, signed by the economic conference chairman, must be dispatched at once. Telegraph receipt of this telegram and execution.

October 10

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] A reference to a report from I. V. Teumin, an agent of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade under the Byelorussian C.P.C., concerning commodity operations by the Byelorussian P.C.F.T. (see also this volume, Document 360).