V. I. Lenin

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

20. V. 1919

Comrade Sokolnikov

I am taking advantage of the opportunity to have a more detailed talk about the uprising. Your telegram of the 17th (No. 189) depresses me greatly: you speak only of the “disintegration” of the “ex-troops” and not a word about the division (34th, I think) which has landed to suppress the uprising! Not a word!

After the offensive against Petrograd, the suppression of the uprising, the most ruthless and immediate, *coute que coute*, is an absolute necessity. I earnestly beg you not to be diverted from this and to inform me in cipher twice a week—I shall insist on sending you what you require, just as I insisted today on an additional telegram about the (already thrice ordered) dispatch of Communists to you from Voronezh and Tambov gubernias.

Finish with the uprising as quickly as possible, at all costs!

Yours, Lenin

We shall also make every effort to step up the resettlement on the Don of people from non-agricultural areas to take over the farmsteads, to create, *respective*, a firm rear, etc.

We shall also send military cadets: yesterday I arranged this with Sklyansky.