478. To THE ORGANISING BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.)

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 314

10. XII. 1919

Orgbureau of the C.C.

In my opinion, Frunze asks too much. We must first capture the whole of the Ukraine, Turkestan can wait and make the best of it for a time.^[1]

Lenin

Notes

[1] In a conversation by direct line with members of the Turkestan Commission, Frunze said: “The refusal to send top-level political workers is due to the big demands of the Southern Front and the Ukraine.... By our efforts we have succeeded in getting... a few people for both the political and the technical jobs.” = (M. V. Frunze na frontakh grazhdanskoi voiny. Sbornik dokumentov, Moscow, 1941, p. 259.)