V. I. Lenin

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

Comrade Zinoviev,

I draw your attention to the appended data (from Avanesov) on the demobilisation of the army.¹

500,000 for XII-II

(2½ months—500,000)

(1 month—200,000)

At this rate we need

4.5 - 1 = 3.5

3.5:0.2 = 17½ months.

Obviously an impossible thing.

The whole point is that the military bureaucracy wants to do it “properly”: transport by rail!

And the railways will take two years to do it.

“Meanwhile” give them clothing, footwear, bread.

We must radically change this: stop giving anything at all.

No bread, no clothing, no footwear.

Tell the Red Army man: either go away now on foot “with nothing”. Or wait a year on ⅛ lb. and without clothing, without footwear.

Then he will go away of his own accord and on foot.

Get information from Avanesov, Bryukhanov, Khalatov, Kursky. Otherwise you will not be ready tomorrow and everything will drag on!

Lenin.