V. I. Lenin

By telephone to Stalin, Kharkov

A Note has been received from Curzon. He proposes an armistice with Poland on the following terms: the Polish army
to withdraw beyond the line fixed by last year’s peace conference," viz., Grodno, Yalovka, Nemirov, Brest-Litovsk,
Dorogiisk, Ustilug, Krylov. This line cuts across Galicia between
Przemysl and Rava-Russkaya, right up to the Carpathians. We keep
everything east of this line. Our army is to withdraw 50
kilometres east of this line. A conference of representatives of
Soviet Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland is to be held
in London under the auspices of the peace conference. Representatives of Eastern Galicia will be allowed to
attend. We can send anybody we like as our representative. It has
been proposed to us that we conclude an armistice with Wrangel,
provided he withdraws to the Crimea. Wrangel is going to London to
discuss the fate of his army, but not as member of the conference. We have been given a week for our reply. Besides, the
Curzon Note says that the Polish Government has given its consent
to a peace with Russia, on the basis of these terms.

Such is the Curzon Note. I ask Stalin:

1) to expedite execution of the order to
furiously inten-sify the offensive;

2) to inform me of his (Stalin’s) opinion.

For my part, I think that all this is a piece of knavery aimed at the
annexation of the Crimea, which is advanced so insolently in
the Note. The idea is to snatch victory out of our hands with
the aid of false promises.

Lenin

Stalin’s reply to be recorded and sent on to me by telephone.

Lenin