Orsha

To Comrade Ivashchenko, Commissar of the Orsha Station
I thank you for the passage of 36 railcars to Germany: this is for our destitute prisoners of war. I request that you refute all vile slanders and remember that we must help
our prisoners of war with all our might.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Written on July 4, 1918

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript