from Trotsky to Stalin

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

Stalin Correspondences

Telegram of L. D. Trotsky to I. V. Stalin, V. I. Lenin, S. S. Kamenev

July 3, 1920

ON A DIRECT WIRE.

TO STALIN, copy TO LENIN, copy TO Glavkom 1 .

The scoundrel Lloyd George again spoke of the inviolability of Wrangel's Crimean refuge. It is quite obvious that the only way out of the situation is such a crushing onslaught, in which we will break into the Crimea on the shoulders of Wrangel without stopping and immediately spread along the Crimean coast with serious artillery in our hands. In the event of an attempt by the British to bombard the cities, it is necessary to sink at least one ship. The whole task is to prepare and ensure the continuity of our onslaught to Sevastopol. Now that things are going well on the Polish front , we can, without weakening the Polish front, temporarily concentrate our attention and forces on carrying out the operation against Wrangel. Please let me know your thoughts. July 3, 20

Pre-revolutionary military council TROTSKY.

RTSKHIDNI. F. 5. On. 1. D. 2433. L. 88. Typewritten text.

Notes:

1 In the upper left corner - a note: "Sklyansky"; over the text - Sklyansky's autograph: "Sk".

2 We are talking about the Southwestern Front, whose troops in the summer and autumn of 1920 operated in two strategic directions - the western (against Poland) and the Crimean (against Wrangel). In the western direction, after the Kyiv operation successfully carried out in May-June 1920, the troops of the front went on the offensive, inflicted a number of defeats on the Polish troops and reached Lublin and Lvov in August.