V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE NOVGOROD GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Gubernia Executive Committee
Novgorod
Copy to the Extraordinary Commission
Copy to the Gubernia Commissar for Food

Apparently, Bulatov has been arrested for complaining to me. I warn you that I shall have the chairmen of the
Gubernia Executive Committee and Extraordinary
Commission, and the members of the Executive Committee arrested
for this and will insist on their being shot. Why did you
not reply at once to my inquiry? [1]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
The occasion for Lenin’s telegram was the receipt on May 20,
1919, at 7.10 p.m., of a telegram addressed to him, which reported
that on their arrival in Novgorod, after having been received by
Lenin, the Chairman of the Artel Association, A. A. Bulatov, and
the Manager of the Instructors’ Department, Lyubimov, had been
arrested.

Lenin wrote the following note on the telegram he had received: “File for handy reference . Reply sent 20/V.”

The inquiry mentioned by Lenin was made on May 13, 1919