665. TELEGRAM TO KARL RADEK

Written on August 19, 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 418

Please dispatch in code

Smilga for Radek

We shall take your considerations into account. Since you are going to see Dzerzhinsky, please insist on ruthless crushing of the landowners and kulaks as quickly and energetically as possible, as also on real help for the peasants   by giving them land and forests of the Polish gentry. Report in more detail, check locally.

Lenin