V. I.

Lenin

525

TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

In code

Trotsky
Copy to Smirnov , R.M.C. 5 also in code

I fully support your reply to Smirnov. We must vehemently denounce the opponents of a buffer
state [1] (it seems that Frumkin is such an opponent), threaten to bring
them before a Party court, and demand that everyone in
Siberia carry out the slogan: “not a step farther east,
all-out efforts to hasten the movement of troops and locomotives to the west, to Russia”. We would be idiots to allow
ourselves to be drawn into a stupid movement into the heart of Siberia, permitting Denikin meanwhile to revive
and the Poles to strike. It would be a crime.

Lenin