V. I.

Lenin

686

To:   L. D. TROTSKY

In code
9. IX. 1920

Trotsky

I consider of the utmost importance Yakovlev’s proposal
concerning the Crimean army which was passed on to you from Gusev. I advise that the proposal be adopted and a
special check instituted, and, independently of this, an
appeal-manifesto be prepared at once over the signatures of
yourself, Kalinin, myself, the Commander-in-Chief, Brusilov and a number of other former generals, with precise
proposals and guarantees, and also mentioning the fate of
Eastern Galicia and the increasing insolence of the Poles.
I request your earliest opinion, or better still your draft
of the manifesto. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Regarding Yakovlev’s proposals, see Note 450.

The “Appeal to Officers of the Army of Baron Wrangel” signed by Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russia C.E.C.; Lenin,
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars; Trotsky,
People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs; S. S. Kamenev,
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Republic;
and Brusilov, Chairman of the Special Council of the
Commander-in-Chief, was published on September 12, 1920, = in Pravda No. 202.
The Appeal called on the officers of Wrangel’s army to renounce
the shameful role of serving the Polish landowners and French
usurers, and to lay down their arms aimed against their own
people. Those who sincerely and voluntarily came over to the
side of Soviet power were guaranteed a full amnesty.