TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL
CASPIAN-CAUCASIAN FRONT
January 8–9, 1919
It is absolutely impossible to allow armed clashes. Show firmness, and the adversaries and provocateurs will lose their audacity. The question of whether to retain Grasis lies in your hands. A party commission is on its way and will punish those who, through their actions, are dragging the garrison into Astrakhan’s affairs.
Lenin