Telegram To The Samara Ukrainians

First published 1942 Published according to the telegram · page 367 · Translated by Jim Riordan

Samara, Gubernia Military Commissar for Samara Ukrainians

Consider it necessary to inform you in reply to telegram sent by Samara Ukrainians that in view of influx of Ukrainian volunteers and abundance of conscripts in Ukraine itself still without arms, Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine considers it unnecessary to call up Ukrainians in Russia and dispatch them to Ukraine. In name of Council of People’s Commissars propose you stop sending Ukrainian units to Ukraine.

Lenin, Stalin