V. I. Lenin

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

TELEGRAM TO K. A. MEKHONOSHIN 

24. IV. 1919 

Military 

Priority 

In cipher 

Astrakhan 

Mekhonoshin 

It is extremely strange that you send only boastful telegrams about future victories. 
Discuss immediately: 

first, whether it is possible to hasten the capture of Petrovsk for the export of oil from Grozny; 
second, whether it is possible to capture the mouth of the Ural and Guryev to obtain oil from there, the need for oil is desperate. 

Direct all efforts towards the speediest obtainment of oil and telegraph in detail. 

Lenin