V. I.

Lenin

Antonov, at His Staff. Kharkov

I welcome whole-heartedly your energetic activity and ruthless struggle against the Kaledinites. I entirely approve
of your refusal to make concessions to the local conciliators,
who, it seems, have led astray a section of the Bolsheviks.
I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of the
millionaire saboteurs in the first– and second-class railway
carriage. [1] I advise you to send them for six months to do forced
labour in the mines. Once again I greet you for your resolution, and condemn the waverers.

Lenin