TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE FIRST CONGRESS
OF THE COUNCILS OF THE DON REPUBLIC
Rostov-on-Don
February 26, 1918
I extend my heartfelt greetings to the First Congress of Soviets of the Don Republic.
I especially fervently endorse the resolution’s call for a victorious conclusion to the burgeoning struggle on the Don against the kulak elements within the Cossack ranks. In these words lies the most accurate formulation of the revolutionary tasks at hand.
It is precisely this kind of struggle that now stands before us throughout Russia.
Lenin