Date: 1920-02-19
Source: ru:PSS/v51


Source: CW vol 51

and L. B. Kamenev

To the members of the Politburo:

I am against summoning Stalin. He is being petty. The Commander-in-Chief is entirely right: first, we must defeat Denikin, then move to a peacetime footing.

I propose to reply to Stalin: "The Politburo cannot summon you at present, considering the most important and urgent task to be the complete defeat of Denikin, for which you must do your utmost to hasten reinforcements to the Caucasian Front."

Lenin

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Written on February 19, 1920.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript