V. I.

Lenin

105

TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd

I do not remember giving permission for contacts with
Omsk.

I shall make inquiries of Podbelsky.

I advise you to make no transactions, direct or indirect,
with the Omsk counter-revolutionaries. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
After the capture of Omsk by Czech and Russian whiteguards
on June 7, 1918, a Siberian whiteguard puppet government was
set up there with the assistance of the interventionists. It
consisted in the main of Socialist-Revolutionaries, with Mensheviks
and Constitutional-Democrats participating. Behind a screen of
democratic phrases it pursued a counter-revolutionary policy,
paving the way for the transition to an open military dictatorship
of the bourgeoisie and landowners.

G. Y. Zinoviev’s inquiry concerned the purchase of grain
in Omsk for Petrograd.