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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO S. I. GUSEV AND M. M. LASHEVICH

Gusev, Lashevich

We have to take the division in view of the bad and almost catastrophic situation near Petrograd and in the
South. No help for it. We shall hope that, in view of the
capture of Ufa, the 5th Army will be able to give up the
division without yielding the Belaya River, and that by
doubling and redoubling our Party energy we shall together
cope with the problem of not letting things go as far as
defeat on the Eastern Front.

Lenin