V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN AND G. Y. ZINOVIEV

5. VI. 1919

Stalin, Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd

I am referring the question of Natsarenus to the Central
Committee. It must be borne in mind that there has been
a huge deterioration in the south, threatening catastrophe.
They are disastrously understaffed there, while you have
enough and to spare. [1] I have informed Chicherin. I have
no objection, of course, to your orders to shoot back. [2]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
On June 6, 1919, the Political Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
passed a decision to transfer S. P. Natsarenus to the Ukraine. In this
connection the following telegram was sent to Stalin: “Politbureau
of C.C. has decided, in view of the extreme necessity of
immediately effecting unity of command in the Ukraine, to appoint
Natsarenus a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 14th