OF THE
TULA ARMS PLANT

Dear Comrades,

The Council of People's Commissars requests that you immediately supply the Red Guard of the Bokovsky mining district of the Don region with rifles, revolvers, cartridges and other arms. Weapons are needed for five hundred men.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Vl. Ulyanov (Lenin)

(December 8) 1917

from the book Documents on the History
of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R., Vol. I

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Written on November 25

First published in 1940

Printed from the typewritten copy