Agreed1. To instruct Chicherin on behalf of the Politburo to issue this directive to Kamenev (to put forward offensive slogans and to move from pacifism to revolutionary communist slogans in general).

Lenin.

Н. Krestinsky.

Trotsky.

Fond 2, op. 2, d. 391 - autograph.

1V.I.Lenin agrees with the proposal of G.V.Chicherin, set forth in the following letter: "21 Aug. 1920 г. To the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP. The movement that has risen among the English workers has reached an impasse. They demand that England not go to war against us. Lloyd George declares that England will not fight and in view of our withdrawal from Warsaw, it is all the easier for him to fulfill it. If the English labor movement is to have food, it must move to new slogans. Would it not prompt them to put forward offensive slogans, to demand from the English Government direct aid to Soviet Russia against Poland and Wrangel? The workers could form voluntary detachments for this purpose. It seems to us that as a slogan for a mass movement such a demand could be eminently valid. Commissar of the People's Commissariat Georgii Chicherin" (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 2, d. 391).

August 22 Chicherin telegraphed to London L.B.Kamenev: "The English movement has reached an impasse, for Lloyd George has declared that he also cares about peace with Russia and keeps England from war with her. This he can do all the more easily under the present phase of martial law. The English labor movement finds itself without further nourishment. The moment has come to pass from purely defensive, pacifist slogans to offensive ones. First of all it would be necessary for the workers to demand no longer peace with Russia, but aid to Soviet Russia against Poland and against Wrangel. The workers themselves could form volunteer detachments to fight on the Polish and Wrangel fronts and, above all, wage a broad campaign demanding direct assistance to Soviet Russia in this struggle. In general, the pacifist slogans no longer correspond to the moment; it would be desirable that they should be changed to more definite slogans akin to our own. The Politburo finds such a change desirable" (ibid., p. 396).