Telegram to Jukums Vācietis, November 15, 1918

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15. XI. 1918

Commander-in-Chief Vatsetis

Serpukhov

Copy to Trotsky

I request you to decide in favour of the plan of the Central Bureau of the occupied countries[1] for forming Polish and Lithuanian shock battalions, in particular a Western brigade on the Southern Front. I am reminding Trotsky of our decision.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

  1. This refers to the Central Bureau of Communist Organisations in the occupied regions.—Ed.