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Telegram to the Odessa Executive Committee, May 24, 1919
24/Vâ19
Executive Committee
Odessa
Copy to Rakovsky, Council of Peopleâs Commissars, Kiev
Allowing foreigners to leave on their own is criminal. To let Russians out under the guise of foreigners is a counter-revolutionary act, tantamount to treason. Foreigners in general should not be allowed out without compensation which can only be ordered by the central government. Citizens of the Entente countries should not be allowed to go, other than by way of exchange carried out by the central government. Not a single Frenchman should be allowed to go out until the return of the soldiers from France, among whom there are many Ukrainians. Those guilty of violating this should be held strictly responsible. Bear in mind that the Finnish Government, obviously at the instigation of the Entente, is hindering the release to Russia of Russian soldiers; therefore do not allow a single bourgeois, a single person, to leave Odessa and the Ukraine. Exceptionsâ Chinese workers, Persians, by orders from the centre.[1]
Lenin
Chairman, Council of Peopleâs Commissars
- â The sentence in the telegram from the words âBear in mindâ to the words âand the Ukraineâ was written by Lenin. The first part of the telegram is a typewritten text, apparently written by Chicherin since there is a note by him to the document saying: âTo Comrade Lenin. Draft of a telegram; please reply whether you agree to it.â He also wrote the last sentence: â ExceptionsâChinese workers, Persians, by orders from the centre.â