V. I.

Lenin

191

TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

In code

Antonov, Kiev
Copy to Rakovsky, Podvoisky, Kamenev

I have received your code message, and also your scheme
for dividing the Southern Front and the Ukrainian Front.
For the first I thank you, for the second I rebuke you for
playing at independence. [1] Send the Ukrainian units to
capture Taganrog without fail, immediately and at all costs. Telegraph.

Lenin