708. To L. D. TROTSKY

Written on October 2, 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 441

Comrade Trotsky,

I think that both Kamenev and Zinoviev should be sent immediately to the Southern Front (and particularly to the 1st Mounted Army), The aim—to inspect political work, step it up and revitalise it, to accelerate the whole tempo. Otherwise we shall not overcome the present mood.

Lenin

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