V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v34;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

LETTER TO THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC
February 6, 1921

Send me the telegram from the Saratov Gubernia Military Commissar, the “reply” to which the Commander-in-Chief sent me today.

* On the telegram there is a note: “Deliver through the political commissar on duty.
Report delivery immediately.”

The reply is stupid and in places illiterate.
It is a bureaucratic evasion instead of action; banditry must be wiped out, not evaded.
Let me be given brief, very brief summaries of the fight against banditry twice a week.
And impress upon the Field Staff that they must work, not evade.
Who is this “Military Commissar of the Staff” Ilyushin, what is his record?
Lenin