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"... to appoint Comrade Stalin a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front"
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From the memoirs of the red commander K. Voroshilov:
"The fall of 1919 is remembered by everyone. The decisive, turning point of the entire civil war was coming. Equipped with" allies ", supported by their headquarters, Denikin's White Guard hordes approached Orel. The whole enormous southern front was rolling back with slow ramparts. Inside, the situation was no less difficult. Food the difficulties were extremely aggravated. Industry stopped from a lack of fuel. Inside the country, and even in Moscow itself, counter-revolutionary elements began to stir. The danger threatened Tula, the danger hung over Moscow.
It is necessary to save the situation. And on the southern front, the Central Committee sends Comrade Stalin as a member of the PBC. Now there is no longer any need to hide the fact that before his appointment, Comrade Stalin placed three main conditions before the Central Committee: 1) Trotsky should not interfere in the affairs of the southern front and should not go beyond his dividing lines, 2) a number of workers should be immediately recalled from the southern front whom Comrade Stalin considered unsuitable to restore the situation in the troops, and 3) new workers of Stalin's choice should immediately be sent to the southern front, who could fulfill this task. These conditions have been fully accepted. "
