355. TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN (original) (raw)
V. I. Lenin
355
TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN
Published: First published in part in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Published in full in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, pages 246b-247a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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4. VI. 1919
Stalin
Smolny
Petrograd
I think it necessary to release Natsarenus for the Ukraine, which is badly in need of workers, while you have a surplus. Further, I request you to visit the Western Front, which has been terribly weakened as regards commissars. It is absolutely essential to support the front as a whole. Would you not find it useful in this connection to have a meeting with Smilga?
I have received the material with your letter, and have begun to examine it.
Lenin