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December 13, 1918 – All in cipher
Voronezh or according to the location
To Trotsky

The reports coming from the area around Perm are deeply alarming. Perm is in grave danger. I fear that we have forgotten about the Urals. You must press Vatsetis hard and ensure that he is dispatching reinforcements to Perm and the Urals with sufficient vigor. Lasevich told Zinoviev that only fully seasoned units should be sent.

Lenin

For the first time, based on the manuscript

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First published in an incomplete form

February 23, 1938, in the newspaper “Pravda,” No. 53

Published in full