Telegram of I.V.Stalin

Moscow, Kremlin, to Lenin

Half-hearted decision of the Organizing Bureau on Litbelsovnarkom is unsatisfactory, it only slows down the matter. I ask the Politburo to give a definite decision on liquidation.

Stalin.

Telegram Lenin and E.D.Stasova Stalin.

At work you can take the goals of the government Litbel, but their nominal existence is necessary, may be useful, so the Politburo confirmed the decision of the Orgburo.

Lenin. Stasova.

Fond 2, op. 2, d. 184 - telegram Stalin - copy, telegram Lenin and E.D. Stasova - Lenin's autograph.

1The meeting of the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on July 14, 1919 discussed Stalin's telegram "that the existence of the government and the Council of Defense Litbel is superfluous"; it was decided: "The Organizational Bureau is in favor of abolishing the Sovoborona. The question should be finally resolved after negotiations with the members of the Political Bureau, t. Kamenev and Lenin" (RCCHIDNI, f. 17, op. 112, d. 6, l. 80). The minutes of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) do not record the discussion of this issue.

Litbel - Lithuanian-Belarusian Soviet Republic.