V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN
Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front*
July 17, 1919

The Danish Red Cross mission, which received permission to leave for Denmark from the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, Dzerzhinsky and the Special Department of the All-Russia Cheka, has been sent to Minsk by agreement with the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. The representative of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs accompanying the mission reports that you have detained the mission and forbidden it to proceed further. I request you to inform me urgently what new considerations, not provided for by the military authorities and the Cheka, have prompted your order to detain the mission.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin