# 678. TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

Source: CW44
URL: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/aug/28.htm

V. I.

Lenin

678

To:   F. E. DZERZHINSKY

Comrade Dzerzhinsky, I enclose a coded message from Comrade
Beloborodov. [1]

In my opinion the danger is immense.

I propose:

the adoption of a directive from the Political Bureau asking the Orgbureau, by arrangement with the
Commissariat for Military Affairs and the Vecheka, to draw
up emergency measures to combat the danger of a revolt and to mobilise sufficient army, Cheka and Party
forces.

Please hand all this at once to Comrade Krestinsky (he will be away for only a few hours today) and for your part
adopt all measures at once .

If we are faced with a revolt on the Kuban, our whole policy (which was spoken about in the C.C.) will crash . It
is necessary, at all costs, to prevent a revolt, and not to
grudge people or efforts for this. Should we not send Mantsev
there?

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]

A. G. Beloborodov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the
Caucasian Labour Army, reported in his telegram that the
counter

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revolutionary whiteguard landing force in the Kuban area would
be liquidated in the immediate future (see Note 438).