V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE LABOUR ARMY

10. II. 1920

R.M.C. of the Labour Army
Ekaterinburg

I am putting your inquiries before the Council of Defence.
Trotsky has left to join you. Personally I fear that you are
indulging in project-mongering, and that Bumazhny’s and
Maximov’s opposition is a play at departmental game.
I advise you not to engage in recriminations but to throw
all forces into the main thing, viz.:
1) the restoration of
railway transport,
2) the collection and delivery of food,
3) the delivery of firewood, timber and barges to
landing-stages. Let me know whether you can carry out this work
harmoniously, energetically and rapidly. [1]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence