To Sklyansky.

Gilbo complains that we do nothing to help the (really) tiny number of French prisoners (a dozen or a few).

That Vyshdelatenavenavenaven1.

Published - The Trotsky papers. 1917-1922. V. 1, p. 338- 339.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 26329 - autograph.

1E.M. Sklyansky replied to V.I. Lenin: "The French prisoners seem to be up to 40 people. They receive Red Army rations and soldier's uniforms. They have a commissar appointed by agreement with the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. Their living conditions are decent. What more can be done?" (Lenin's Collection XXXIV, p. 108). Lenin requested the name, address and telephone number of the commissar and on April 11, 1919 received a reply that the commissar of the French prisoners was E.L. Dobin, appointed by the Soviet Propaganda Department of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 1, d. 9228, l. 2).