To Comrade Stalin at the location]

Sinelnikovo station

We have decided in the Politburo, contrary to Trotsky and your advice, to reject the peace proposal of Rumania, because a number of information points to close steps towards peace on the part of Poland. Rumania would probably answer: we agree with Poland; we do not want to help her, I think you have not taken this into account. Rumania will probably attack, but in addition to the military preparation here (not deciphered), other things are needed from the Rumanian Communists.

Lenin.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 14557 - copy (decrypted).

1The decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b), about which Lenin writes to Stalin, was taken on June 29, 1920. On that day, the Politburo faced the question: "On the offer of peace to Romania" and it was decided: "In view of new information about the formation of a new government in Poland, from which peace proposals can be expected, and in view of available information about the departure of Grabsky in London to Krasin, to postpone the offer of peace to Romania" (RCCHIDNI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 92, l. 8). With this decision LD Trotsky did not agree, and July 8 from him to Lenin, NN Krestinsky, LB Kamenev, Stalin and NI.A postal telegram was sent to Bukharin, in which he assessed the Politburo's decision as a "profound mistake" and suggested that "by all means seize the peaceful initiative in our own hands, to make a clear peace proposal precisely in view of the military situation" (The Trotsky papers. 1917 - 1922. V. II, 1971, p. 222). In G.V.Chicherin's letter to Lenin of July 10 it was reported that H.G.Rakovsky proposed a different plan on this issue. "He proposes to address Lithuania with a general note," Chicherin wrote, "in which Romanian official speeches and statements and newspaper reviews will be quoted concerning the alleged danger to Rumania of a Bolshevik offensive and the alleged shelling of Rumanian units by Red Army soldiers.... The note ends with a proposal, in order to ensure that the existing armistice between us and Rumania is faithfully observed, to appoint a mixed commission of representatives of the military authorities to regulate the observance of the armistice and navigation along the lower Danube". Having made a number of emphases in the last phrase, Lenin wrote in the margin against it: "it is possible, perhaps, as a compromise with Trotsky" (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 2, d. 337). At a meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on August 5 on the question of peace negotiations with Rumania it was decided: "To approve the proposals of t. Chicherin with regard to Romania" (ibid., f. 17, op. 2, d. 33, l. 1). Chicherin's proposals have not been found, but his position is explained by the note of the NKID to the Rumanian Foreign Minister Taka Ionescu of August 5 with a proposal to resume the exchange of views with the desire to implement a peace conference (see: Documents of Foreign Policy of the USSR. Vol. III, M., 1959, p. 82). In a reply note, the Rumanian government reported on August 10 that the allied British government proposed to discuss in London the terms of peace between Russia and the neighboring states in future peace negotiations, the Rumanian government agreed to this and was waiting for an invitation to London (see: ibid., p. 83).