of the combined onslaught of the Czechoslovaks, the British, and the Alekseev Cossacks. In view of this and in view of the statement by the Petrograd workers who arrived here, Kayurov, Chugurin and others, that Petrograd could give ten times more if it were not for the opposition of the Petrograd part of the Central Committee, – in view of this I categorically and ultimatively insist on the cessation of all opposition and on the dispatch from Petrograd of ten times more workers. That is precisely the demand of the Party’s Central Committee.

I categorically warn that the situation of the Republic is dangerous and that the Petrograders, by delaying the dispatch of workers from Petrograd to the Czechoslovak front, will assume responsibility for the possible ruin of the whole cause.

Lenin

NB: Return this paper to me with a note indicating at what hour it was transmitted to Petrograd, to Smolny.

Lenin

*Pravda* No. 17

Fully published in 1942.

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Written on 27 July 1918.

First partially published on 21 January 1925 in the newspaper in *Lenin Miscellany* XXXIV.

Printed according to the manuscript.