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 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 from J. V. Stalin to V. I. Lenin

July 31 [1920]

Moscow - the Kremlin, only to Lenin.

Kharkiv 31/7.

I already wrote that Commander- in-Chief 1 is coming to our front 2 . Today he writes that he is canceling the trip due to the situation on the Western Front. It seems to me that he was simply scared, intimidated by Wrangel's actions and does not want to connect himself with the fate of our operations against Wrangel, in which he apparently does not believe, although it is clear that such a connection remains, despite the cancellation of the trip. Wrangel continues frenzied attacks along the entire front, parts of Denikin 3 interned by Georgiaalready at Wrangel and are fighting with us at the front, in the Orekhov region, after fierce fighting, we lost six guns, in the Berdyansk region, the enemy is moving forward, took Verkhne-Tokmak, knocked out one of our armored trains. It can be said with certainty that the setbacks will continue until the concentration of our forces and the beginning of the strike, and the concentration of our forces is, as I already wrote, slowly, mainly because the Commander-in-Chief caught on late with the transfers, despite a number of warnings on my part. Tonight I'm leaving for the front with a comfront.

Stalin.

RTSKHIDNI. F. 558. On. 1. D. 1892. L. 3-5 Autograph.

Notes:

1 S.S. Kamenev. .

2 We are talking about the Crimean sector of the Southwestern Front.

3 This refers to military formations that were subject to internment from Georgia in accordance with the Soviet-Georgian agreement of May 7, 1920.