V. I.

Lenin

200

TELEGRAM TO THE COMMANDER OF THE 2nd ARMY

I greet the valiant Red Army troops who captured Izhevsk.
Congratulations on the anniversary of the revolution. Long
live the socialist Red
Army! [1]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin attached great importance to the suppression of the
whiteguard-S.R. revolt in Izhevsk and the liberation of the town. At
the beginning of November 1918, in a talk with S. I. Gusev,
member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 2nd Army, he
expressed the hope that Izhevsk would be liberated by the first
anniversary of the October Revolution, and asked that this
message should be transmitted to the Red Army men. On November
7, troops of the division commanded by V. M. Azin stormed and
captured the town and the small arms factory.

Lenin’s telegram is in reply to the report on the liberation of
Izhevsk received from the Eastern Front. It was read out to the Red
Army men who took part in the liberation of the town.