Simbirsk

To the Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front

To Lashevich

While fully understanding the difficulty of your position, we are absolutely compelled to demand still more and more from you. Therefore, it is imperative that you strain every effort to accelerate your work on the formation of new units in your area and in your districts. Telegraph confirmation of execution.

Lenin

First published February 23, 1938 in the newspaper *Pravda* No. 53

Printed from the manuscript