Secret

To the Fifth Army, Kayurov

I have received your incomprehensibly optimistic telegram; I am very much concerned that such optimism, having already done considerable damage in the East, will harm us now as well. Inform me whether you have communicated your opinion to Trotsky and what measures you have taken to improve political work, to instill vigor and consciousness into the reinforcements.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin in the journal

First published in 1924

*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya* No. 3 (26)

Printed from the manuscript