Telegram to Grigori Zinoviev, June 11, 1918

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Zinoviev

Smolny

Petrograd

I do not remember giving permission for contacts with Omsk.

I shall make inquiries of Podbelsky.

I advise you to make no transactions, direct or indirect, with the Omsk counter-revolutionaries.[1]

Lenin

  1. After the capture of Omsk by Czech and Russian whiteguards on June 7, 1918, a Siberian whiteguard puppet government was set up there with the assistance of the interventionists. It consisted in the main of Socialist-Revolutionaries, with Mensheviks and Constitutional-Democrats participating. Behind a screen of democratic phrases it pursued a counter-revolutionary policy, paving the way for the transition to an open military dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and landowners.
    G. Y. Zinoviev’s inquiry concerned the purchase of grain in Omsk for Petrograd.