V. I.

Lenin

Decisions of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front [3]

The Politbureau rules that the action of Comrades
Tukhachevsky and Smilga be severely censured. They had no right to issue
their worse than tactless order, which undermines the policy of the Party
and the

Government. [1]

The Politbureau directs the R.M.C. of the Republic to immediately rescind the order of the R.M.C. of the Western Front and to
reprimand the latter for their irregular action. [2]
[4]

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Notes:
[1]
By a note written at the top of the document Lenin instructed his
secretary to have this decision telegraphed to the R.M.C. of the Western
Front: “Brichkina, send this off by wire.” Under the text of the
decision he wrote: “Copies for Comrades Chicherin and
Danishevsky.”— Ed .

[2]
This text was marked off by Lenin with a pencil and a note added:
“Sklyansky has already been told.”— Ed .

[3]
This refers to Order No. 1847 dated August 20, 1920, of the
Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front, which stated that the
Polish peace delegation consisted entirely of spies and secret service
agents and that peace could only be concluded “on the ruins of White
Poland”.

[4]
On August 23, 1920, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic
rescinded the order of the R.M.C. of the Western Front and reprimanded the
latter for their irregular action, Simultaneously K. Danishevsky, head of
the Soviet delegation conducting negotiations with Poland, was directed, in
the event of the Polish delegation not feeling satisfied with the
explanation already given to the delegation at its meeting, to bring to the
notice of this delegation the order of the Revolutionary Military Council
of the Republic countermanding that of the R.M.C. of the Western
Front.