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TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

Commander-in-Chief Antonov
Nikitovka

Petrol shortage threatens to bring the mines to a standstill; it will be impossible to pump out the water. We
urgently ask you, if there is the slightest military possibility,
to send all petrol to the mines, at the disposal of the
Kharkov Regional Economic Council, 27 Sumskaya.

Lenin