V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. F. FYODOROV

August 9, 1918

Comrade Fyodorov, It is obvious that a whiteguard insurrection is being
prepared in Nizhni. You must strain every effort, appoint three
men will) dictatorial powers (yourself, Markin and one other),
organise immediately mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds
of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers,
former officers and the like.

Not a minute of delay.

I can’t understand how Romanov could leave at a time like this!

I do not know the bearer. His name is Alexei
Nikolayevich Bobrov. He says he worked in Vyborgskaya Storona
District in Petrograd (from 1916).... Previously worked in
Nizhni in 1905.

Judging by his credentials, he can be trusted. Check up on
this and set him to work.

Peters, Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission, says that they also have reliable people in Nizhni.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms. Mass deportation of Mensheviks and
unreliables. Change the guards at warehouses, put in reliable people.

They say Raskolnikov and Danishevsky are on their way to see you from Kazan.

Read this letter to the friends and reply by telegraph or
telephone.

Yours, Lenin

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