311. TELEGRAM TO L. B. KAMENEV

Written on April 28, 1919 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed,, Vol. 50. Printed from the decoded text of the telegraph form. · page 219

Kamenev
Kamenev’s train
Ekaterinoslav

The directive about the Donets Basin was long ago repeated. Have a factual check carried out as to what exactly arrived, how much, when and where, or where it is along the line. Joffe is needed not in the Crimea, but in the government of the Ukraine in the post which Rakovsky will select for work against the tendency towards separatism. As for the Crimea, we shall find someone else, but not, of course, Dybenko.

Lenin