[1920, March, not earlier than 4]  
I have no objection to Shorin<sup>2</sup> retaining the title “assistant to the Commander‑in‑Chief”.  
10*  
Suspicious absence of news about Budyonny and the 10th and 11th Armies???<sup>3</sup>

<sup>1</sup> In a telegram to Deputy People’s Commissar for Military Affairs and Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic E. M. Sklyansky, L. D. Trotsky reported that the Commander‑in‑Chief had proposed summoning V. I. Shorin for work in Siberia. Trotsky requested that this question be discussed in the Orgburo, inquired in what capacity—perhaps as an authorised representative of the Revolutionary Military Council—Shorin could be brought into the Siberian Revolutionary Committee and placed over the district and command to establish order.  
<sup>2</sup> V. I. Shorin was Commander‑in‑Chief of the troops in Siberia in 1920–1921.  
<sup>3</sup> Beneath this text by V. I. Lenin there are notes by E. M. Sklyansky. About S. M. Budyonny and the 10th Army Sklyansky wrote: “They have been, but evidently are making little progress”; about the 11th Army he wrote: “She has been and has advanced.” S. M. Budyonny — member of the R.C.P.(B.) since 1919. During the foreign military intervention and civil war he commanded a cavalry corps, then the 1st Cavalry Army.