Published:
First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.
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Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
page 247b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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5. VI. 1919
Stalin, Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd
I am referring the question of Natsarenus to the Central Committee. It must be borne in mind that there has been a huge deterioration in the south, threatening catastrophe. They are disastrously understaffed there, while you have enough and to spare.[1] I have informed Chicherin. I have no objection, of course, to your orders to shoot back.[2]
[1] On June 6, 1919, the Political Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) passed a decision to transfer S. P. Natsarenus to the Ukraine. In this connection the following telegram was sent to Stalin: “Politbureau of C.C. has decided, in view of the extreme necessity of immediately effecting unity of command in the Ukraine, to appoint Natsarenus a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 14th Army, formerly the 2nd Ukrainian Army. Lenin, Krestinsky, Kamenev.” (Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, p. 490.)
[2] This refers to repulsing Finnish whiteguards who were making attacks on the Soviet frontier.
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