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Letter to Ephraim Sklyansky, February 6, 1921
First published, but not in full, in 1938 in Bolshevik No. 2. Printed from the original. Published in full in the Fourth (Russian) Edition of the Collected Works.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 35, page 474
February 6, 1921
Comrade Sklyansky,
I attach one more “warning”.
Our military command has failed disgracefully by allowing Makhno to get away (in spite of an immense superiority of forces and strict orders to catch him), and is now failing still more disgracefully by proving unable to crush a handful of bandits.
Order a brief report for me from the Commander-in-Chief (with a brief sketch showing the disposition of bands and troops) about what is being done.
How is the wholly reliable cavalry being used?
—the armoured trains? (Arc they rationally distributed? Are they not moving wastefully, requisitioning grain?)
—armoured cars?
—aeroplanes?
How, and how many are in use?
Both grain and wood fuel, everything is being lost because of the bands, while we have a million-strong army. You must do all you can to brace up the Commander-in-Chief.
Lenin
First published in part in 1938 in the magazine Bolshevik No. 2. Published in full in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 83a.
6.II.1921
Comrade Sklyansky:
Let me have the telegram from the Saratov Gubernia military commissar, the “reply” to which from the Commander-in-Chief you sent me today.
The reply is stupid and here and there illiterate.
It is a bureaucratic handout, instead of a business-like approach: banditry must be wiped out, instead of being formally written about.
Let them give me, twice a week, brief, very brief results of the fight against banditry.
Also bring home to the field staff that they should work, instead of writing formal notes.
Who is this “field staff military commissar” Ilyushin, what is his record?
Lenin