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May 22, 1919. In cipher
To Trotsky

We have just learned of a breakthrough of our front near Riga. Riga appears to be lost.379

A betrayal by Latvian bourgeois officers is highly probable. A general decisive offensive along the entire Western Front is also possible. All this obliges us to intensify tenfold the attack on the Donbass and at all costs immediately liquidate the uprising on the Don. Sklyanski and I, in addition to the thousand cadets sent yesterday,*
will send another thousand cadets there. I advise you to devote yourself entirely to the liquidation of the uprising.

Lenin

First published in 1943 in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript