NOTES AND MARKS ON A LETTER
FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PETROGRAD SOVIET
June 10, 1919
... 2. Then we must further: to demoralize the enemy, declare to the Finns, Estonians, Latvians, and at the same time to the Poles and Lithuanians, in as solemn a manner as possible, that we are ready to conclude peace with them and recognize their independence.
Of course, the bourgeois will not believe it, etc. But this will increase demoralization among them...
Lenin
I disagree with § 2.
Now this will strengthen the enemy, increasing in them the belief in our weakness.