Written: Written in August, not earlier than 28, 1920
Published:
First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
page 425a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Comrade Dzerzhinsky,
I enclose a coded message from Comrade Beloborodov.[1]
In my opinion the danger is immense.
I propose:
the adoption of a directive from the Political Bureau
asking the Orgbureau, by arrangement with the Commissariat for Military Affairs and the Vecheka, to draw up emergency measures to combat the danger of a revolt and to mobilise sufficient army, Cheka and Party forces.
Please hand all this at once to Comrade Krestinsky (he will be away for only a few hours today) and for your part adopt all measures at once.
If we are faced with a revolt on the Kuban, our whole policy (which was spoken about in the C.C.) will crash. It is necessary, at all costs, to prevent a revolt, and not to grudge people or efforts for this. Should we not send Mantsev there?
Yours,
Lenin
[1] A. G. Beloborodov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Caucasian Labour Army, reported in his telegram that the counter __PRINTERS_P_553_COMMENT__ 18–2075 revolutionary whiteguard landing force in the Kuban area would be liquidated in the immediate future (see Note 438).
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