Kursk

Executive Committee of the Soviet of Deputies

I urgently request that emergency measures be taken against the border detachment at Zhelobovka station, Lgovsky uyezd, along the Kursk-Korenevo line, where the detachment is seizing money and valuables even from poor Ukrainians and Russians and is succumbing to provocateurs trying to disrupt the peace negotiations with Ukraine.

Stop this disgracing of Soviet power. Telegraph me about implementation.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

1918

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Written no later than June 14

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript