Letter to the CC of the RCP(b), Between March 4 and 24, 1919

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On the basis of § 3 a Note to be sent to the Polish Government with assurances that we fully agree to, and indeed desire, a decision by the vote of the working people; we desire agreement on this basis, and agree to concessions on details, and so on. This to be given as a directive from the CC[1]

Lenin

  1. Lenin wrote this on a letter from the Central Executive Committee of the Polish Socialist Party to the CC, RCP(b). Point 3 of this letter expressed the desire that the question of frontiers with Poland should be decided on the basis of self-determination of the population living in the disputed territories, primarily in Lithuania and Byelorussia. Lenin’s proposal was adopted by the CC, RCP(b) and was reflected in Chicherin’s letter to A. Y. Więckowski, delegate extraordinary of the Polish Government (see Dokumenty vneshnei politiki SSSR, Vol. II, 1958, pp. 105– 06).