MEMORANDUM FROM A. M. ZHARCO REGARDING HIS APPOINTMENT
TO THE UCRANIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT
December 1918
Comrade Zharko!
1) Where are you from?
2) Do you speak Ukrainian?
3) How many years have you lived and worked in Ukraine?
4) Are the peasants in Ukraine poor because of their union with Russia, or are they opposed to it? * *