NOTICE VIA DIRECT LINE
To X. G. RAKOVSKY
I have received your letter. We are taking all necessary measures to provide assistance.
I reaffirm the imperative need to marshal every ounce of your strength and to place all CHON 2 under military control and into military service. Your sole task is to hold out for at least two months. I am astonished that you permit “The Beginning” 3—such a blatant indulgence of scoundrels like the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries—is one of the unmistakable signs of your laxity and lack of resolve.
August 2, 1919
Lenin