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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

In code
22. V. 1919

Trotsky

I have just learned of the break-through of our front at
Riga. Riga is evidently lost. [2] Most likely treachery of
the Lettish bourgeois officers. Possibly also preparations
for a general, determined offensive along the whole Western
Front. All this obliges us to increase tenfold the attack
on the Donets Basin and at all costs to put down the revolt
on the Don immediately. Sklyansky and I will send another
thousand trainees there over and above the thousand sent
yesterday. [1]

I advise you to devote yourself wholly to liquidating the revolt.

Lenin