24113
TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
7 (20) January 1918
The bearer—Comrade Rahja*, an old party worker, personally known to me, deserves absolute trust. It is extremely important to assist him (for the Finnish proletariat) by issuing weapons: about 10,000 rifles with cartridges, and about 10 three-inch guns with ammunition.
I very much request that this be carried out without reducing the figures.
Yours, Lenin
43968
LETTER TO G. K. ORDJONIKIDZE
Kharkov**
15(28) January 1918
For God's sake, take the most energetic and revolutionary measures to send bread, bread, and bread!!! Otherwise, Petrograd may starve. Special trains and detachments. Collection and storage. Escort the trains. Report daily.
For God's sake!
Lenin
* Y. A. Rahja — a Finnish communist, organizer of the Red Guard in Finland in 1917. On August 31, 1920, he was killed by a band of White Finns who infiltrated a meeting of Finnish communists in Petrograd.
** G. K. Ordzhonikidze was at that time the extraordinary commissioner of Ukraine, and from April 1918 also the extraordinary commissioner of southern Russia and the North Caucasus.

23933
TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
17 (30) January 1918
I request that 25,000 rifles and 30 machine guns, necessary for the protection of Russian soldiers in Finland from the atrocities of the White Guard bourgeois detachments, be issued to the Commissar of the Finnish railway.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
23398
TELEGRAM TO CENTROBALT*
Helsinki
27 January (9 February) 1918
It is ordered that CentroBalt and local fleet committees provide, at the first request of the army committee of the Revel fortified area, transport for the movement of weapons and provisions to Helsinki.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.
11178
DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS ON THE ALLOCATION OF 10 MILLION RUBLES FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST COUNTER-REVOLUTION
29 January (11 February) 1918
Allocate ten million (10,000,000) rubles at the disposal of the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs for the struggle against counter-revolution.
* CentroBalt—Central Committee of the Baltic Fleet sailors.