391. TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 266

Moscow
18. VII. 1919

Stalin
R.M.C., Western Front

Your request will be discussed by the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. Sklyansky says that if more is to be taken from the Eastern Front, then it should be for the Southern Front. Tomorrow Smilga and the Commander-in-Chief^[2] arrive from the Southern Front.^[1]

Lenin

Notes

[1] Lenin marked off the text of the telegram and wrote in the margin: “In code.”—Ed.

[2] The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic at that time was S. S. Kamenev.