TELEGRAM TO THE TAMBOV GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF MILITARY AFFAIRS,
COPY TO THE GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Urgent, bypassing all regular channels
May 24, 1919
You informed me that you had dispatched 669 communists to the Southern Front and that on the 22nd you were sending another 200. Meanwhile, only three hundred have arrived—please verify this and report back immediately. The dispatch must be intensified with the utmost vigor.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin