35. To E. M. SKLYANSKY

Written in late 1920- early 1921 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 66

The Commander-in-Chief^[1] and Frunze^[2] should be daily goaded and spurred on (whipped and flayed) to get them to rout and catch Antonov and Makhno.

Notes

[1] Commander-in-Chief of the R.S.F.S.R. Armed Forces, S. S. Kamenev.—Ed.

[2] M. V. Frunze, who was appointed commander of the troops in the Ukraine and the Crimea after the rout of Wrangel, was in charge of mopping-up operations against the Makhno and other bandit groups in the Ukraine.—Ed.