A note has been received from Curzon. Curzon proposes an armistice with Poland on the condition of the Polish army's withdrawal beyond the line assigned to it by the peace conference last year 271: Grodno, Yalova, Nemirov, Brest-Litovsk, Dorogusk, Ustilug, Krylov. This line cuts through Galicia between Przemysl and Rawa-Ruska as far as the Carpathian Mountains. Everything to the east remains ours. Our army is to withdraw 50 kilometers to the east of this line. A conference of representatives of Soviet Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland will take place in London under the auspices of the peace conference. Representatives of Eastern Galicia will be admitted there. We can send anyone we wish as our representatives. We are offered the conclusion of an armistice with Wrangel on the condition of Wrangel's withdrawal to the Crimea. Wrangel is going to London to discuss the fate of his army, but not as a member of the conference. We are given a week's time to reply. Moreover, in Curzon's note it is stated that the Polish government has given its consent to peace with Russia on the basis of these conditions.

Such is Curzon's note. I ask Stalin:

1) to accelerate an order for a frenzied intensification of the offensive;

2) to communicate to me his, Stalin's, opinion.

I myself personally think that this is nothing but swindling for the sake of the annexation of the Crimea, which is brazenly put forward in the note. They want to snatch victory from our hands by means of fraudulent promises.

Lenin

Record Stalin's reply and transmit this reply to me by telephone.

Lenin

Written on July 12 or 13, 1920

First published in 1950

In the 4th edition of the Works of V. I. Lenin, vol. 31

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