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Draft CC Directives On Army Unity
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, Volume 29, pages 404-405
Whereas:
(1) The RSFSR, in alliance with the fraternal Soviet Republics of the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Byelorussia, is compelled to wage a war of defence against the common enemy, world imperialism and the Black-Hun-dred, whiteguard counter-revolution which imperialism supports;
(2) an essential condition for success in that war is a single command for all contingents of the Red Army, the strictest centralisation of the command of all the forces and resources of the socialist republics, especially of the entire army supply apparatus and also of railway transport which is an important-material factor in the war, being of primary importance both for the conduct of operations and for the supply of munitions, equipment and provisions to the Red Army,
the CC of the RCP resolves:
(1) to recognise as absolutely essential for the duration of the socialist war of defence the unification of everything connected with supplies for the Red Army under the single guidance of the Council of Defence and other central bodies of the RSFSR;
(2) to recognise as absolutely essential for the duration of the socialist war of defence the unification of railway transport and the management of the railway network through-out the entire territory of fraternal socialist republics under the guidance and management of the People’s Commissariat of Railways of the R.SF.S.R.;
(3) to recognise as incompatible with the interests of defence the existence of separate bodies supplying the Red Army and separate commissariats of railways in the frater-nal Soviet republics, and to insist on their being changed for the duration of the war into branches of the R.S.F.SR. bodies supplying the Red Army and of the People’s Commis-sariat of Railways of the R.S,F.S.R. that shall be under the jurisdiction of and fully subordinated to the central RSFSR bodies supplying the Red Army and the People’s Commissariat of Railways of the RSFSR;
(4) to recognise as subject to annulment all decrees concern-ing Red Army supplies and railway transport or concern-ing the management of the railway network wherever they contradict the orders and decrees of the R.SF.S.R. regulating supplies for the Red Army and the management of railway transport and the railway network of the RSFSR
Lenin, Stalin