V. I.

Lenin

220

TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

In code

Trotsky
Copy to Rakovsky

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee requests that the Central Committee’s directive be communicated
to all responsible workers: to hold out to the last, defending Odessa and Kiev, the communications between them
and their communications with us to the last drop of blood.
This is a question of the fate of the whole revolution.
Remember that our help is not far off.

For the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Lenin

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