V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

IN CIPHER

Kiev, Antonov

Copies to Podvoisky and Rakovsky

Sokolnikov telegraphs me that Denikin has made excellent use of the respite in the Donets Basin, has fortified himself and assembled fresher forces than ours. The danger is enormous. The Ukraine must recognise the Donets Basin Front as unquestionably the most important Ukrainian front and must at all costs immediately carry out the Commander-in-Chief’s assignment to give substantial reinforcements in the Donets Basin–Mariupol sector. From Podvoisky’s material I see that there is a mass of military property in the Ukraine, not counting even Odessa; it must not be hoarded but used immediately to form units of Donets workers and new contingents for the capture of Taganrog and Rostov. Have you mobilised all the officers in the Ukraine? At all costs the forces against Denikin must be rapidly and considerably increased. Telegraph more fully and make your cipher clerks cipher more accurately so that everything can be understood.

22. IV. 1919. Lenin

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First published January 20, 1929

in the newspaper *Krasnaya Zvezda* No. 17

Printed from the manuscript