V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro) from the Russian; AI-translated.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH N. N. KRESTINSKY 1

[Not earlier than June 24, 1919]

Kamenev and I agree. Under such conditions, is a meeting of the Political Bureau necessary, if you also agree?
N. Kr.

I think a convocation of the Political Bureau is not necessary.
Write to Chicherin that the Political Bureau agrees, provided he conducts negotiations in agreement with Marchlewski.2

Polish CEC.3
The Polish Central Committee is here almost in full strength, for Leszczyński and Dolecki have arrived. Chicherin’s proposal was coordinated with Dzierżyński, Pestkowski and Kozłowski. He evidently would like our agreement with this position, so that the newcomers do not introduce changes. If you have no objection, I will inform not only Chicherin but also the Poles. Let them, if their opinion changes, submit a new statement.
N. Kr.

If we demand their agreement, we will save time, they will appeal to us less.

1 This exchange of correspondence between V. I. Lenin and N. N. Krestinsky, a member of the CC, RCP(B), took place in connection with G. V. Chicherin’s letter of June 24, 1919, to the CC, RCP(B), concerning the proposal of the board of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to delegate J. Marchlewski to Warsaw on an official mission to conduct negotiations with the Polish government on the exchange of hostages and other matters.
On G. V. Chicherin’s letter V. I. Lenin made a note: “To the archives.”
2 Julian Marchlewski—a prominent figure in the Polish, German and international working-class movement. He was one of the organisers and leaders of the Social-Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. At the insistence of the Soviet government, in 1918 he was released from a German concentration camp and came to Soviet Russia; he was elected to the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, of which he remained a member until the end of his life. He carried out a number of important diplomatic assignments, and participated in negotiations with Poland, Finland and other countries.
3 This refers to the Central Executive Committee of the groups of the Communist Workers’ Party of Poland in Russia.

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