V. I.

Lenin

478

To:   THE ORGANISING BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.)

10. XII. 1919

Orgbureau of the C.C.

In my opinion, Frunze asks too much. We must first capture the whole of the Ukraine, Turkestan can wait and
make the best of it for a time. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
In a conversation by direct line with members of the Turkestan
Commission, Frunze said: “The refusal to send top-level
political workers is due to the big demands of the Southern Front and
the Ukraine.... By our efforts we have succeeded in getting... a
few people for both the political and the technical jobs.” = ( M. V. Frunze na frontakh grazhdanskoi voiny. Sbornik dokumentov ,
Moscow, 1941, p. 259.)