V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; ru:LS/v24
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTES
ON
A ROSTA
TELEGRAM .
August 28, 1919
The Finnish Information Bureau reports on August 28 of this year that the newspaper
"Folket's Dagblad Politiken" states that, according to information it has received from a
reliable source, the War Minister Churchill some time
ago at a party congress delivered a speech about the campaign
of the Allies against the Russian revolution. Having collected a great quantity of all kinds of war
supplies on all the frontiers of Soviet Russia, a concentrated
offensive of an army of 14 different countries against Moscow will begin. This advance
is to be started at the end of August or the beginning of September according to
Churchill's calculations. Petrograd is to fall in September, and Moscow by Christmas.
At first the affairs of Russia would be managed by a mixed commission under
a military dictatorship, until the work of pacifying the country is finished. If
even this grandiose centralised campaign against Soviet Russia
ended in a draw, there would be only one possibility in sight, i.e.,
to recognise Lenin and conclude peace with Russia, for otherwise a European
war would break out, which would last for several years.
6. Finland
( Kolchakia \
Am[erica]
Esthonia
\ Denikinia
/
Latvia
Lithuania
10 . Poland
Ukraine
Georgia
Azerbaijan
14. Armenia
* As in the text of the telegram. — Ed.