[June 3, 1919]

To Comrade Trotsky

Are you fully informed of the situation on the Southern Front? What are you undertaking? Where are you going? I would consider it useful to send S. K. Minin now to Tsaritsyn to conduct work on its defense. What is your view on this?

Lenin

Published according to the text written by E. M. Sklyansky on a telegraph form