ON G. V. CHICHERIN'S RADIOGRAM TO D. CURZON

[Not earlier than July 12 — not later than July 17, 1920]

...In the matter of reconciliation with Poland, the Soviet Government considers it necessary to take into account, besides the interests and aspirations of the Russian working masses, only the interests and aspirations of the Polish working masses, and therefore considers it possible to achieve peace with Poland only through direct negotiations with the Polish Government by Poland...

...The Soviet Government cannot fail to take into account the circumstance that this boundary was established by the Supreme Council in a certain part under the pressure of counter-revolutionary Russian elements, adherents of the fallen old order of the bourgeoisie and landowners, and that, for example in the Kholm region, the decision on this question by the Supreme Council clearly bore the imprint of the influence of these counter-revolutionary elements and followed in the footsteps of the Tsarist and imperialist Great Russian bourgeoisie's anti-Polish policy on this question. Soviet Russia is prepared in general, with regard to the conditions of peace, to the greater degree to meet the interests and desires of the Polish state, the further the Polish people proceeds in its internal life along such a path as will create a firm foundation for genuine fraternal relations between the working peoples of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania and will create guarantees that Poland will cease to be an instrument of attacks and intrigues against the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia and other nations*.

Printed from the typewritten text corrected by V. I. Lenin

* The Note of the Government of the RSFSR to the Government of Great Britain, into which V. I. Lenin introduced corrections, was published on July 18, 1920 in the newspaper *Izvestia VTsIK*, No. 157; in 1959 it was included in the book *Documents of the Foreign Policy of the USSR*, vol. III.

George Nathaniel Curzon — English reactionary statesman and diplomat. From 1919 to 1924 — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain. Was one of the principal organizers of foreign military intervention against Soviet Russia.