Written: Written on August 19, 1918
Published:
First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
page 135b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Trotsky
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Regarding your military proposals about forming detachments of instructors, let the military themselves decide this, I am no judge. I only know of the special need of having our own instructors for the workers’ army in view of the complete unreliability of the officers. As regards a monetary award, I agree and will support and put through your decision.[1] It should not be made public.
[1] This refers to a proposal to reward the first units to enter Kazan and Simbirsk.
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