V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TODAY IN CIPHER TO JOFFE ON BEHALF OF THE C.C. PLENUM.

The whole point for us is: first, to obtain an armistice in a short time, and second, and most important, to obtain a real guarantee of actual peace within a ten-day period. Your task is to secure this and to verify the reality of the guarantees for actual fulfilment. If you secure this, then make maximum concessions, up to the line along the Shchara River, the Oginsky Canal, the Yaselda and Styr rivers, and further along the state frontier between Russia and Eastern Galicia. If, despite all our efforts and concessions, this cannot possibly be secured, then your sole task is to expose the Poles’ procrastination and finally to certify to us the inevitability of a winter campaign.