To:THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR MILITARY AFFAIRS

17. I. 1918

Please issue to the Commissar of the Finlandskaya
Railway 25,000 rifles and 30 machine-guns, required for theprotection of Russian soldiers in Finland against the
atrocities of whiteguard bourgeois detachments.

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