Date: 1919-04-07
Source: ru:LS/v34

1919 YEAR to Moscow within a distance of up to 200 versts from it (his village is 180 versts from Moscow). There is, they say, bread with us, and there is even some surplus.
The winter time, they say, was missed, but even after sowing (which ends around St. Nicholas) there will be about one month of free time (until the removal of manure, a week before Petrovsky Day). This time, they say, must be utilized.
It is necessary to urgently and immediately gather information and, if there is even a small chance, to implement this measure, for there will be no supply from the east.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
24790
TELEGRAM TO THE RECTOR OF VORONEZH STATE UNIVERSITY
Not earlier than April 7, 1919
No postponements are possible. The decision of the Defense Council must be executed immediately*.
Chairman of the Defense Council
Lenin
Printed from the original, signed by V. I. Lenin.
* Refers to the following decision of the Defense Council dated April 7, 1919: "In view of the extremely acute need for medical personnel for the Red Army, all fifth-year medical students must be immediately graduated and called up for military service, with mandatory departure to the front no later than April 10 of this year" (Izvestia, No. 76, April 9, 1919).

2 1587
TELEGRAM TO THE KNYAGININSKY LAND DEPARTMENT, KNYAGININSKOE SECOND ZAPYANSKOE SOCIETY
April 8, 1919
Any measures of coercion for the transition of peasants to collective field cultivation are inadmissible. Non-compliance with this will be punished with the full severity of revolutionary law.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin
Printed from the original, signed by V. I. Lenin.
24390
TELEGRAM TO MILITARY COMMISSAR OF ARMY VI KUZMIN
Vologda or Plesetsk, depending on location
April 8, 1919
Your telegrams give me the impression of deception on the part of the British. Therefore, without prejudging the orders of your military command, I request from my side to strengthen vigilance and security, as well as to take care of strengthening our offensive*.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin
* In a telegram dated April 5, the Military Commissar of Army VI reported: "Our reconnaissance found a note near the village of Maksimovskaya, 60 versts north of Shenkursk: 'Comrades, we ask you not to advance and not to shoot, as we are mobilized and are under oppression, as in the old days... It is impossible to cross over, everything is taken away from those who do, and their families suffer because of them.' I request that this note be widely publicized and protest expressed. When Shenkursk was captured, I released about 200 mobilized prisoners, and no repressions were carried out."
On this telegram, V. I. Lenin has a question to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs: "What have you done? What have you given to Rosta?" (Archive of IMEL, No. 24385).