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TELEGRAM TO M. F. BOLDYREV

Boldyrev
Executive Committee
Zadonsk

August 17, 1918

Act in the most resolute way against the kulaks and the
Left Socialist-Revolutionary scoundrels who have made common cause with them. Issue appeals to the poor
peasants. Organise them. Ask for help from Yelets. Essential
to suppress the kulak extortioners mercilessly. Telegraph.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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