Written: Written on June 10, 1919
Published:
First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1976],
Moscow,
Volume 35,
page 396.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Comrade Sklyansky,
(1) Without fail at once appoint (and carry through to the end) an investigation into who misinformed yon, minimising the disaster.[1] After all, this is treachery.
(2) All measures must be taken and special attention given to the rapid movement of the 6 regiments from the Eastern Front.
For really it is you, Comrade Sklyansky, who have proved to be responsible for the delay!![2]
Reply to me what exactly you have done on both points.
[1] Reference is to the critical situation in Petrograd.—Ed.
[2] Lenin refers to the criminal delay in fulfilling his instructions on the urgent dispatch of reinforcements to the Petrograd Front.
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