# TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN

Source: PSS, Volume 51

Via Direct Line (Ciphered)
To Stalin

The Central Committee does not insist on your travel*—provided that, over the coming weeks,
you devote all your attention and every ounce of your energy to supporting the Caucasian
Front, subordinating the interests of the Southwestern Front to its needs. Arzhanov is being sent to Voronezh
to expedite the necessary troop transfers. We request that you extend him the necessary assistance
and keep us duly informed about the progress of these transfers.

4 February 1920.

Chairman of the Council of Defense, Lenin**

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First published in 1942, in Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXXIV

Printed from typewritten copy