MEMORANDUM ON THE DIRECT LINE
TO THE CHAIRMAN
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC

Southern Front
May 22, 1919

We have just learned of a breakthrough of our front near Riga*. Riga has apparently been lost. Betrayal by Latvian bourgeois officers is very probable. A preparation for a general decisive offensive along the entire Western Front is also possible. All this obliges us to increase our attack on the Donbass tenfold and in any case immediately suppress the uprising on the Don. Together with Sklyansky, in addition to the thousand cadets sent yesterday, we shall send another thousand cadets there. I advise you to devote yourself entirely to the suppression of the uprising.

Lenin