V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

Comrade Antonov, who is leaving for Moscow and from there for the south to conduct military operations against
Kaledin, [1] is obliged every day , by direct line (personally
or through an aide), to inform the Council of People’s
Commissars whom precisely he, or other military authorities, appoints as responsible persons for directing
particular operations, especially as regards movement and
mustering of troops and command.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars