The Council of People's Commissars (SNK) expresses its confidence that Comrade Antonov will continue to act, as he has in the past, in full contact with the central Ukrainian Soviet authority, which the SNK has welcomed, and with the extraordinary commissioner appointed by the Council of People's Commissars on the 26th.

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Written on December 30, 1917 (January 12, 1918)

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript