419. TO E. M. SKLYANSKY AND I. T. SMILGA (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

419

To: E. M. SKLYANSKY AND I. T. SMILGA

Written: Written in the summer of 1919
Published: First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, pages 280b-281a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Sklyansky and Comrade Smilga,

I know perfectly a certain comrade, who is a man ofabsolutely exceptional loyalty,bravery and energy ( especially as regards explosions and daring raids).[1]

I direct:

(1) that he be given an opportunity to learn command practice (all speed-up measures to be taken, particularly for the reading of lectures and the like),

what can be done?

(2) that he be charged with organising a special demolition, etc., squad to operate behind the enemy’s lines.

Notes

[1] This refers to Kamo (S. A. Ter-Petrosyan).—Ed.