Comrade Sklyansky! Markov told me today that now 7 echelons of the 21st Division will be arriving daily, that it will arrive in full within 4 days (the delay in news about it was caused by a storm that disrupted the telegraph for 2 days), and then for each division we will need another week. He is doing everything to accelerate this.

Should we not use the entire 21st or a large part of it in order to absolutely annihilate all of Lashevich's "godchildren"? Think this through carefully. The capture of Sokolnikov's "godchild" and the complete destruction of Lashevich's "godchildren" are of great, enormous importance.

Your Lenin

Written 30 August 1919

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript