V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:ND; en:Pipes;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

DRAFT OF A TELEGRAM TO I. T. SMILGA

August 4, 1920

In reply to No. 135 and No. 1381, we inform you that the Political Bureau agrees with you, asking you to fix the time-limits for the transfer of Vilna and other places.* You must insist that the Taryba² immediately undertake to feed the population, for we can give neither bread, nor gold, nor Nicholas rubles. We regard all this not as a renunciation of the sovietisation of Lithuania, but as a postponement and a modification of the form of sovietisation.