V. I. Lenin

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

ADDRESS TO THE EXECUTIVE WORKERS¹

July 1919

Comrades! Knowing the strict character of Comrade Trotsky’s order, I am so convinced, absolutely convinced, of the correctness, expediency and necessity for the good of the cause of the order given by Comrade Trotsky, that I support this order fully.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

Published – *The Trotsky Papers. 1917–1922*. Vol. 1, p. 588.

Fund 2, inventory 1, file 27058 – autograph.

¹ The address was written by V. I. Lenin on an unfilled blank form of the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars. Concerning this address, L. D. Trotsky recalled: “When he (Lenin) handed it to me, and at the bottom of the blank page these lines were written, I was perplexed. He said to me: ‘I have received information that rumours are being spread against you that you are shooting Communists. I am giving you such a blank, and I can give you as many of them as you like, that I approve your decisions, and at the top of the page you can write any decision and my ready signature will be on it.’ This was in July 1919” (Trotsky, L. *The Stalin School of Falsification*. Moscow, 1990, p. 61).