V. I.   Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO SH. Z. ELIAVA, J. E. RUDZUTAK, V. V. KUIBYSHEV


Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 315a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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In code
11. XII. 1919

Eliava, Rudzutak, Kuibyshev
Tashkent

Your demands for personnel are excessive. It is absurd, or worse than absurd, when you imagine that Turkestan is more important than the centre and the Ukraine. You will not get any more. You must manage with what you have, and not set yourselves unlimited plans, but be modest.

Lenin


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