V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Ufa to Yumagulov

Copies: Ufa to Eltsin

Sterlitamak, Bashrevkom, Bashoblkom to Artyom Sergeyev

In stating in the telegram that "the All-Russian Central Executive Committee considers it improbable and completely ruled out that Artyom, Samoilov and Preobrazhensky could conduct agitation against the Bashkir Republic," the All-Russian Central Executive Committee thereby once again confirmed to them the necessity of the most loyal observance of the Bashkir Constitution. The same aim was pursued by the telegram sent later to Comrade Artyom from the Central Committee. Under such conditions, I am fully confident that Artyom, Preobrazhensky and Samoilov will give no real grounds for complications. The members of the Bashrevkom must do the same. Only from your telegram did I learn that Comrades Shamigulov, Izmailov and others were expelled from the territory of Bashkiria by the Bashrevkom: the Central Committee thought that they were travelling to Moscow on their own initiative to make a report, considered the expenditure of time by five comrades on the journey unnecessary, and sent them back to Sterlitamak.

Your attempt to expel old Party comrades from Bashkiria, the absurd reference to a Bukharinist orientation, the persistent, though incorrect, use of the epithet "Ukrainians" in relation to Preobrazhensky, Artyom and Samoilov—give me grounds to doubt your objectivity in this matter. Therefore, I propose that you immediately carry out the telegram of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of 20 January, which has not yet been fulfilled in the part concerning the annulment of the report about a conspiracy.

On behalf of the Politburo of the Central Committee, Lenin*