...wonderful1 plan! Finish it together with Dzerzhinsky. Under the guise of "green2 (we'll blame them later) we'll march 10-20 versts and hang kulaks, popes, landlords. Prize: 100,000 rubles per hanged man.

Published - The Trotsky papers. 1917 - 1922. V. II, p. 278.

Fund 2, op. 2, d. 380 - autograph.

1The beginning of the note has not survived.

2 "Greens" - guerrilla units formed from persons hiding from military service in the forests of the North Caucasus and the Crimea. Many detachments fought against the White Army.