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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO S. I. GUSEV AND M. M. LASHEVICH

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Gusev, Lashevich
Revolutionary Military Council, Eastern Front
Simbirsk

The situation in the south is so grave that it is unlikely that we shall be able to give you reinforcements. You
will have to make a drive on mobilisation, sometimes total, in the front-line area, on local army procurements and
the collection of rifles from the population. Shoot those
guilty of concealing rifles. I consider the greatest danger
is a possible movement by Kolchak against Vyatka for a break-through to Petrograd. Pay the most serious
attention to this, send information more often about the front
at Glazov. Sklyansky and I are sending reinforcements there, although Muralov is oddly silent and does not
himself ask for reinforcements.

Lenin