V. I.

Lenin

204

TELEGRAM TO I. I. VATSETIS

Urgent
Top priority
15. XI. 1918

Commander-in-Chief Vatsetis
Serpukhov
Copy to Trotsky

I request you to decide in favour of the plan of the
Central Bureau of the occupied countries [1] for forming Polish
and Lithuanian shock battalions, in particular a Western
brigade on the Southern Front. I am reminding Trotsky of our decision.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to the Central Bureau of Communist Organisations
in the occupied regions.— Ed .