V. I.

Lenin

211

TELEGRAM TO M. M. LASHEVICH AND K. K. YURENEV

In code

June 20, 1919

Lashevich, Yurenev
Revolutionary Military Council Eastern Front
Simbirsk

There are reports, first, of a considerable decrease in
the number of political workers in the armies of the
Eastern Front, because they are leaving for local administrative work in the areas liberated from the enemy; and,
secondly, of the fatigue of some divisions. The most serious
attention must be given to this. Political workers and all
others, whoever they may be, should be absolutely forbidden
to leave the army before the Urals have been occupied, and
before they have been replaced by double the number of
Urals workers; and then at all costs you should secure mobilisation en masse in the front-line area and replace the
tired units by fresh forces, if only for a temporary rest,
because the offensive against the Urals must not be weakened,
it must definitely be intensified, speeded up, strengthened
with reinforcements. Telegraph what measure you are taking . Pay attention to the rising near Samara and on the
Irgiz. [1] Your silence about this is suspicious.

Lenin
Chairman, Defence Council