Bolshevik Leaders correspondence

Bolshevik leadership Correspondence. 1912-1927
Collection of documents 1996.
Compiled by: A.V.Kvashonkin, L.P.Kosheleva, L.A.Rogovaya, O.V.Khlevnyuk.

No. 169

S. K. Minin to K. E. Voroshilov, I. V. Stalin, G. K. Ordzhonikidze

April 20, 1923

20/IV-1923

Klim. Stalin. Sergo.

I am surprised why you do not pay the necessary attention to Frunze's illness. True, the Central Committee last year decided that F[runze] should be treated and provided funds. But this is not enough. You need to follow the implementation. His disease is severe (stomach ulcer) and can be fatal. Doctors recommend four months of serious treatment. Next year it will be 6 months, etc. And then we will, when M[ikhail] V[asilyevich] is out of action, say that this is how he worked, forgetting a serious illness and so on .

As I see, F[runze] is not at all going to be treated properly: there will be maneuvers and so on .

It is necessary to force them to be treated in a comradely and party way, as, it seems, Comrade Lenin did with many.

S. Minin 2 .

RTSKHIDNI. F. 85. Op. 24. D. 175. L. 1. Autograph.

Notes:

1 At the end of October 1925, Frunze was operated on and died as a result of this operation. This gave rise to numerous assumptions about Stalin's involvement in the death of Frunze (Medvedev R.A. On Stalin and Stalinism. M., 1990. S. 129-136).

2 On the form: “Secretary of the North-Western Regional Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (Bol.) Petrograd Smolny room. eight."