Based on completely reliable information that I received quite by chance, in recent days Finland has been making intensive military preparations, apparently preparing for an attack.

May 5, 1920. Gukovsky

Forward in cipher to the military in Petrograd and to Zinoviev, with the instruction that for now it is not to be disclosed.

Add that Litvinov is sending a warning in the same sense.

Written May 6, 1920

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript