V. I. Lenin

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

IN CIPHER

ONLY FOR TROTSKY

In view of the whole situation on the Polish front and in connection with it, especially as a result of a night talk with Joffe, who emphatically confirms his and our military expert’s conviction that the Poles will not be able in fact to break the armistice (Joffe, by threatening a break, compelled the Poles to abandon their demand for a definite sum of gold. Joffe says: the Poles are more afraid of a break than we are), the Political Bureau of the C.C. instructs the military authorities to take a certain risk and to withdraw some units from the South-Western Front for the speediest and surest destruction of Wrangel.

On behalf of the Political Bureau,
Lenin