Secret
To Smilga:
The situation on the front near Minsk is currently not good. Near Dvinsk, it's no better. Near Lubenets, it's even worse. Our units are worn out. Their reserves can be used in a month. The enemy does not want to wait. Pilsudski is somewhere near Molodechno and boasts of the supposed capture of Minsk. The Poles' plan: to occupy up to the Dnieper, and then put into action Russian White Guard [forces].

Moscow, Kremlin, to Lenin.

Must be discussed carefully in the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.

18/VII [1920]
Lenin