355. TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

First published in part in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Published in full in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the original. · page 246

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4. VI. 1919

Stalin
Smolny
Petrograd

I think it necessary to release Natsarenus for the Ukraine, which is badly in need of workers, while you have a surplus. Further, I request you to visit the Western Front, which has been terribly weakened as regards commissars. It is absolutely essential to support the front as a whole. Would you not find it useful in this connection to have a meeting with Smilga?

I have received the material with your letter, and have begun to examine it.

Lenin