In many places you can read about the veto that Joseph Stalin imposed on a resolution on the modernization of telephone communication in the country. The text of the ban is also given: “This will destroy everything that we created with such difficulty. It is difficult to imagine a more convenient tool for counter -revolution and conspirators than this. ” We checked whether Stalin wrote such.

The aforementioned quote from Stalin is given in the publication of the magazine "Kommersant Money" dated August 7, 2002, among the entertaining facts about phones. That's what is there It is said:

“By 1913, the telephone network covered a significant part of the European part of the country, only on the intercity highway St. Petersburg-Moscow was conducted daily up to 200 negotiations. And then the war began, which turned into a series of revolutions, and the task of telephoneization of the country has moved to decades.

Bell's attitude towards the invention of Bella clearly speaks not only repeatedly replicated in the films "Hello, young lady? Please, Smolny!", But also a curious Visa-Visa-Viso-Viso Stalin. On the project of modernization of telephone communication in the country, the leader drew the following: "It will destroy everything that we have created so difficult. It is difficult to imagine a more convenient tool for counter -revolution and conspirators."

Similar information can be read in one of the numbers of the magazine "System administrator", In the children's Internet encyclopedia Claw.ru and a number of other sources. In the newspaper "Northern Territory»It is specified that Trotsky proposed a resolution rejected by Stalin.

To begin with, I would like to trace the path of quotes. Looking ahead, let's say that it turned out to be relatively short. The earliest mention of Stalin’s words on the Internet dates back on December 16, 2000 in the next selection of facts about the phone on the portal Km.ru. And nothing - in the print publications of the Soviet era. It is likely that the authors of the portal gathered information from the popular encyclopedia “I know the world. Inventions ”, first published just in the same 2000 (author - Alexander Leonovich):

But until 2000 - nothing similar, and this makes us think about the emergence of a quote in conspiracy literature and poor in the sense of high -quality book publishing the first post -Soviet years.

Now let's turn to the facts. On the one hand, from some works You can find out that in the first Soviet years, the telephones of the country was not at all a shock pace:

“In Soviet historiography, the opinion was established about the completion of the processes of restoration of communications to the pre -revolutionary level by 1926. The calculations of the per capita services of electric communications showed that the recovery processes were slow. By the number of letters a year, the pre -revolutionary level was reached only in 1929. The USSR telephone telephone room at the turn of the 20-30s was only 0.15 of the phone per hundred inhabitants, that is, it remained less than before the revolution. Only in 1931 this figure was five points above 1914. ”

A different impression is made up of Articles On the history of the Moscow City telephone network (MGTS):

“For the sake of justice, we note that the Bolsheviks made the most to telephone the capital - the latest technical solutions appeared in our country, although late, unlike world practice, but worked for a long time and reliably. A quick and reliable connection was attached to great importance-the first contract with the Swedish Ericsson in the early 1920s was supervised by I.V. Stalin himself. It was then, since 1930, that the company has been supplying the first automatic PBX to Moscow. ”

Similar information is confirmed by Leonid Parfyonov in his project "The other day":

“The State Human Ward restored the pre -revolutionary level of the industry by 1929. Communication is not an industry, but an infrastructure, even a service, and it is developed with a delay. In 1930 alone, the first automatic telephone station for 8000 numbers of production of the Krasnaya Zarya plant (formerly Ericksson) was launched in Moscow.

The phone is valued by power as a control tool. Remaining a household curiosity even in large cities, the devices are installed primarily in the present places: different offices, directorates, as well as at the place of residence of their leaders in order to transfer or demand the report at any time. By the end of the 1920s, 7000 village councils were telephone, in the mid-1930s-about 30,000. In municipalities of megacities, phones have been hanging from royal times when these houses were profitable. A separate apartment with a telephone means belonging to the Soviet nomenclature: the boss or a science, technique, and culture recognized by the authorities. The business call is much more significant than a full-time conversation, and in the new comedy of Grigory Alexandrov “Volga-Volga”, the district bureaucrat shouts to the janitor from the balcony: “Take the phone! I will talk to you on the phone.”

Lev Trotsky himself in the book "My Life" makes it clearthat management appreciated the role of the telephone in the state machine:

“The ideological struggle was replaced by administrative mechanics: telephone challenges of party bureaucracy to meetings of working cells, a frantic accumulation of cars, a roar of bucks, well -organized whistle and roar while the opposition on the rostrum appeared. The ruling faction pressed the mechanical concentration of his forces, the threat of repression. ”

In addition, in many sources You can read about the trepidable attitude of the Soviet leader to the invention of Bell: “Stalin almost mystically loved the phone. He was his most devoted and indispensable assistant from the revolutionary stormy years. <...> The beginning of Stalin’s active activity in the party and in the country coincided with the rapid development of telephone communication. And the leader appreciated it with all the eastern wisdom and foresight. If you want, the long and protracted struggle with Leo Trotsky Joseph Stalin won exclusively with the help of the telephone. ”

As for the specific resolution, which would be aimed at increasing the level of telephone in the country and would be rejected by Stalin, there are no information about such cases in open sources.

What conclusion can be drawn from all this? Perhaps at the very dawn of socialism, the modernization of the telephone network in the Soviet state was not at the best pace, but it has significantly accelerated in the second half of the 1920s. Moreover, there is no data on artificial obstacles by the authorities in this process. Moreover, from biographical materials about Stalin it follows that he extremely positively assessed the role of telephone connection in the country. Taking into account the absence of our quotes in the sources until 1991, we can conclude that the episode with Stalin and Trotsky is fictitious.

Fake

What do our verdicts mean?

Read on the topic:

1. Museum of the MGTS: History in Details
2. “The other day. Our era. " Telephone