V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50; en:CW/CW44;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

IN CIPHER

SIMBIRSK

REVWARCOUNCIL OF THE EASTERN FRONT

GUSEV, LASHEVICH

The situation in the South is so grave that we shall hardly be able to send you reinforcements. You will have to exert every effort to carry out mobilisation, sometimes universal, in the front-line zone, to make use of local military stores and to collect rifles from the population. Shoot people for concealing rifles. I regard a possible move by Kolchak on Vyatka to break through to Petrograd as a very great danger. Pay the most serious attention to this, and inform us more frequently about the front near Glazov. Sklyansky and I are sending reinforcements there, although, strangely enough, Muralov is silent and does not ask for reinforcements himself.

LENIN