V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM TO THE OREL AND KURSK GUBERNIA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES AND GUbernia PARTY COMMITTEES

Secret.
Urgent, out of turn.
2 addresses

Orel
Gubernia Executive Committee and Gubernia Committee of Communists

Kursk
Gubernia Executive Committee and Gubernia Committee of Communists

9. XI. 1918

A radiogram has just been received from Kiel, addressed to the international proletariat, stating that power in Germany has passed to the workers and soldiers.

This radiogram is signed by the Kiel Sailors’ Deputies Soviet.

Furthermore, German soldiers at the front have arrested Wilhelm’s peace delegation and have themselves begun peace negotiations directly with the French soldiers.

Wilhelm has abdicated.

It is necessary to exert every effort to inform the German soldiers in the Ukraine of this as quickly as possible and to advise them to strike at Krasnov’s forces, for then together we shall win tens of millions of poods of grain for the German workers and repel the invasion of the British, who are now approaching Novorossiisk with their squadron.

Telegraph receipt and execution.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin