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We consider it necessary to report in response to the telegram from the Ukrainians of the Samara Region that in view of the influx of Ukrainian volunteers and the abundance of those mobilized in Ukraine itself who have not yet received weapons, the Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine does not consider it necessary to carry out the formation of Ukrainians in Russia and their dispatch to Ukraine.

In reporting this, we propose on behalf of the Council of People's Commissars to cease the dispatch of Ukrainian units to Ukraine.

Lenin*

on telegraph form

* The telegram was also signed by I. V. Stalin. — Ed.

Written December 17, 1918

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the text