Telegram to Joseph Stalin and Grigori Zinoviev, June 5, 1919

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Author(s) Lenin
Written 5 June 1919


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First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 247b.
Keywords : Grigori Zinoviev, Joseph Stalin, Telegram

5. VI. 1919

Stalin, Zinoviev

Smolny

Petrograd

I am referring the question of Natsarenus to the Central Committee. It must be borne in mind that there has been a huge deterioration in the south, threatening catastrophe. They are disastrously understaffed there, while you have enough and to spare.[1] I have informed Chicherin. I have no objection, of course, to your orders to shoot back.[2]

Lenin

  1. ↑ On June 6, 1919, the Political Bureau of the CC, RCP(b) passed a decision to transfer S. P. Natsarenus to the Ukraine. In this connection the following telegram was sent to Stalin: “Politbureau of CC has decided, in view of the extreme necessity of immediately effecting unity of command in the Ukraine, to appoint Natsarenus a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 14th Army, formerly the 2nd Ukrainian Army. Lenin, Krestinsky, Kamenev.” (Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, p. 490.)
  2. ↑ This refers to repulsing Finnish whiteguards who were making attacks on the Soviet frontier.
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