OF STATE PAPERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENEMY THREAT TO PENZA

June 18, 1918

You are ordered to cease the production of money signs and immediately, in the utmost haste, through partial evacuation to Moscow, bring the Penza branch of the Expedition for the production of state papers into a state of complete unsuitability for printing money signs by our enemies, but with the mandatory observance of the condition of the possibility of immediate complete restoration of its work for printing, in case of liberation of Penza from danger, by returning the evacuated items.

You answer with your life for the accuracy of execution of this order.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars  
Lenin

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*