# TO THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT

Source: PSS, Volume 50

ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

January 17, 1918

I request that 25,000 rifles and 30 machine guns be issued to the Commissioner of the Finnish Railway—weapons indispensable for safeguarding Russian soldiers in Finland against the atrocities perpetrated by White Guard bourgeois detachments.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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Written January 17 (30), 1918.

First published in 1942.

In Lenin Collection XXXIV.

Printed from the manuscript.