V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAMS TO THE TAMBOV AND VORONEZH GUBERNIA MILITARY COMMISSARS

1

Urgent, top priority
24. V. 1919

Gubernia Military Commissar
Tambov
Copy to the Gubernia Executive Committee

You informed me that you have sent Sokolnikov 669
Communists and will send 200 on the 22nd. Yet only three
hundred have arrived. Check this and reply at once.
Dispatch must be stepped up most energetically.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

| First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV | |
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| Printed from the original | |

2

Urgent top priority
24/V. 1919

Gubernia Military Commissar
Voronezh
Copy to the Gubernia Executive Committee

Report how many Communists have been sent to

Sokolnikov. Reply at once. Dispatch must be stepped up with
the utmost vigour. [1]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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| Printed from the text in an unknown handwriting | |

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Notes:
[1]
On May 26, 1919, Lenin sent another telegram to the Voronezh
Gubernia Military Commissar (a copy was sent to the Gubernia
Party Committee), stating: “Report immediately how many
Communists have been sent to the Southern Front. Lenin , Chairman
of the Council of People’s Commissars.” (V. I. Lenin, Voyennaya perepiska , Moscow, 1957, p. 133.)