V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

Comrade Stalin
Kremenchug

To be handed only personally to Stalin for personal decoding

The situation on the Western Front has turned out to be worse than Tukhachevsky and the Commander-in-Chief
thought, hence the divisions you asked for must be sent
there, but no more can be taken from the Caucasian Front,
because there are insurrections there and the position is
extremely alarming. Trotsky is arranging to send you reinforcements from the Crimean divisions, which may enable you to take two or three of them for the Kiev direction.
Try to bring up the units and at all costs follow up the
offensive with greater vigour. You, of course, will remember that, by a decision of the Politbureau, the offensive
against the Crimea has been halted pending a further decision of the
Politbureau. [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to the decision of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
of May 4, 1920, suspending military operations in the Crimea and
the Caucasus. See also this volume, Document 583.