25.I.1921. Greetings to Comrade Budyonny!

Friend!

Things in Petrograd and Moscow have gone well: the platform of Lenin and others has won an enormous majority. We here have no doubt that you, Frunze, Molotov, Minin, and others will manage to win over the Donbas (the miners' congress has also declared for us), the industrial cities, and the armies. Yevdokimov, Melnichanski, and Zalutsky will help. It would not be a bad idea to use Petrovsky on the right bank. Do not surrender a single post without a fight to either Trotsky or the Workers' Opposition.

Yours,

Stalin.

Source: Military Archives of Russia. 1993. Issue 1, p. 405.