TO E. M. SKLYANSKY

You need to: 1) send telegrams today about emergency measures to help Chistopol to
the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front and to the army;

2) talk to the Eastern Front yourself today via direct line.

Lenin

Written April 26, 1919.

First published September 23 Printed from the manuscript
1925 in the newspaper "Pravda" No. 217

TELEGRAM TO S. I. GUSEV

26. IV. 1919

To Gusev

It is necessary to take emergency measures to help Chistopol. Have you been attentive enough to this? Have you exhausted all the possibilities? Telegraph.

First published in 1942. Printed from the manuscript in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Lenin

TO G. E. ZINOVIEV. APRIL 26, 1919

TELEGRAM TO K. A. MEKHONOSHIN

Cipher

Astrakhan

To Mekhonoshin

From the summary of 23/4 it is evident that "Ardagan" and "Kars" passed from Baku to Guriev with impunity. Thus, the Astrakhanites boastfully promise great victories in the future, while at the same time letting the enemy pass through to Guriev. This is outrageous and even leads one to suspect either treason or malicious sabotage. We demand from you the strictest control, personal verification, the most attentive supervision, unconditional vigilance.

Lenin

Written on April 26, 1919.

First published in 1942. Printed from the manuscript in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

TO G. E. ZINOVIEV356

Comrade Zinoviev! Read this yourself and to Comrade Badayev. He needs to be strictly warned: one more failure to comply with the instructions of the center - and we will hand him over for trial. We are not joking about this.

Get a receipt from him that this has been announced to him.

26/ІV. Lenin

P.S. Return the attached materials and this letter.

Written on April 26, 1919.

Published for the first time, from the manuscript


TELEGRAM TO L. B. KAMENEV

Ekaterinoslav, Kamenev's train
To Kamenev

The directive regarding the Donbass has long been repeated. Achieve factual verification of exactly what, how much, when, where it arrived, or where it is en route. Ioffe is needed not in the Crimea, but in the government of Ukraine in the post that Rakovsky chooses for work against independence [самостийность], and we will find someone else for the Crimea, but certainly not Dybenko.

Lenin