V. I.   Lenin

35

To:   E. M. SKLYANSKY

Written: Written in late 1920- early 1921
Published: First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 66^b.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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The Commander-in-Chief^[1] and Frunze^[2] should be daily goaded and spurred on (whipped and flayed) to get them to rout and catch Antonov and Makhno.

Notes

[1] Commander-in-Chief of the R.S.F.S.R. Armed Forces, S. S. Kamenev.—Ed.

[2] M. V. Frunze, who was appointed commander of the troops in the Ukraine and the Crimea after the rout of Wrangel, was in charge of mopping-up operations against the Makhno and other bandit groups in the Ukraine.—Ed.