Telegram to S.S. Kamenev, August 13, 1920

Source: Tom 17

Your latest directive 4774 op/1052/sh unnecessarily overturns the established grouping of forces in the area of these armies, which have already gone over to the offensive. This directive should have been given either three days ago, when the Cavalry Army was in reserve, or later, after the Cavalry Army had taken the Lvov area. At the present time it only confuses the matter and will inevitably cause a needless and harmful delay in operations for the purpose of a new regrouping. In view of this, I refuse to sign the corresponding order of the South-Western Front in furtherance of your directive.

Source: Military-Historical Archive. 1997. Issue 1, p. 218.

NOTE

The reference is to the transfer of the 12th Army and the 1st Cavalry Army from the South-Western Front (A.I. Egorov, I.V. Stalin), which was advancing on Lvov, to the Western Front (M.N. Tukhachevsky, I.S. Unshlikht), which was advancing on Warsaw.