V. I.

Lenin

595

To:   G. V. CHICHERIN

Comrade Chicherin, Be sure to take advantage of Comrade Stalin’s presence
in Moscow (for 2 or 3 days) to have a talk personally with
him and to collect (at once and after his journey, that is,
to have more sent from the front) all material concerning
British help for Wrangel.

Carefully collect it all and publish it within a week or
two with a calm (without any abuse) Note of protest, showing that Britain deviated from the truth . [1]

Greetings, Lenin

P.S. I have sent Bukharin ( for you , too) my letter to the
British workers. Ring up Bukharin.

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Notes:
[1]
On June 11, 1920, G. V. Chicherin, People’s Commissar for
Foreign Affairs, sent a Soviet Government Note to the British
Government addressed to the Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon,
containing facts about the aid given by the British Government
to the whiteguard General Wrangel. The Note stated that
Wrangel himself, in an army order issued on May 6, “openly and
explicitly mentions the diplomatic intervention of Great Britain on
his behalf as a means of keeping his hold on the Crimea and
mounting a new attack against Soviet Russia”. =

This Note was published on June 13, 1920, in Izvestia No. 127. On this subject, see also
Lenin’s letter to Chicherin of June 11, 1920 (see this volume,
Document 609).