Telegram to Shalva Eliava, Jānis Rudzutaks, Valerian Kuybyshev, December 11, 1919

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11. XII. 1919

Eliava, Rudzutak, Kuibyshev

Tashkent

Your demands for personnel are excessive. It is absurd, or worse than absurd, when you imagine that Turkestan is more important than the centre and the Ukraine. You will not get any more. You must manage with what you have, and not set yourselves unlimited plans, but be modest.

Lenin