V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

KHARKOV

To Deputy People’s Commissar for Military Affairs Mezhlauk, copy to Artyom

I have received yet another confirmation from Lutovinov that you are playing at independence and local republics, refusing to send immediately to the Donets Basin all the military forces and all the mobilised workers of Kharkov, pleading the idiotic prohibitions of Podvoisky. I declare that you will be brought before a Party court and expelled from the Party if you do not stop this game and do not send at once all the military forces of Kharkov and all the mobilised workers to the aid of the Donets Basin. Reply immediately in cipher stating compliance, how many you are sending and when. You will be held responsible for delay.

May 7, 1919. Lenin