647. TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

647

TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

Written: Written on August 7, 1920
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, page 410a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Stalin

I apologise for the delay in replying, due to the end of the work of the Comintern. The plenary meeting of the Central Committee did not adopt any decisions[1]that alter the established policy. Britain is threatening war, she does not want to wait later than Monday, August 9. I don’t much believe the threats. Kamenev in London is also standing firm so far, and I am convinced that your successes against Wrangel will help to put an end to the vacillations within the Central Committee. In general, however, much still depends on Warsaw and its fate.[2]

Lenin

Notes

[1] Lenin marked off the remaining text of the telegram and wrote in the margin: “In code.”—Ed.

[2] See also present edition, Vol. 31, p. 266.—Ed.