Date: 1920-05-05
Source: ru:ND

5/V – 1920

Comrade Trotsky,

I am sending you Comrade Marhlevsky’s letter. We need to speak on the telephone—before today’s speeches, that is—once you have read the letter.

Yours, Lenin.

Published in: The Trotsky Papers, 1917–1922, Vol. II, p. 160.

Fund 2, Inventory 1, File 26121 – a copy.

1V.I. Lenin sent L.D. Trotsky a letter from Yu. Marhlevsky dated May 4, 1920, requesting that he forward to L.M. Karakhan excerpts from Marhlevsky’s report of December 24, 1919, concerning the progress of negotiations conducted on behalf of the Red Cross with Captain I. Börner, the trusted representative of the head of the Polish state, J. Piłsudski. In his report, Marhlevsky stated that on November 3, 1919, at the Mikashevichi station, Captain Börner had informed him of Piłsudski’s declaration that the latter would not issue an order for the Polish army to advance beyond the line Novgorod-Volynsky–Olevsk (along the Sarny–Koval’ route), the rivers Ptich, Berezina, Bobruisk, the Berezina Canal, and on to the Dvina—and beyond the Dvina as well.

On May 25, 1920, Lenin delivered speeches to Red Army soldiers preparing to deploy to the Polish front, as well as to a joint session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Council of Trade Unions, and the factory and plant committees (see: Lenin, V.I., Complete Collected Works, vol. 41, pp. 110–118).

3See also Document 225