Provide immediately what is requested; send from Moscow today;
give me at once the names of 6 (former) generals (and addresses) and 12 (former) General Staff officers
responsible for the precise and accurate execution of this order, warning them that they will be shot for sabotage if they do not comply.

M. D. Bonch-Bruevich must answer me in writing at once via courier on this matter.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written 9 August 1918

First published 23 February
1938 in the newspaper *Pravda* No. 53

Printed from the manuscript