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Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE BASHKIR REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

Bashkir Revolutionary Committee
Ufa
Copy to Comrade Validov

Now that the decisive victories of the Red Army in the
East have assured the free development of the Bashkir people, the decision of the Revolutionary Military Council
of the Republic to transfer some Bashkir units to Petrograd
acquires exceptional political importance. The predatory
imperialists will see that the awakened peoples of the
East have risen to defend the centres of the proletarian
revolution. At the same time close contact between the armed
Bashkirs and the workers of Petrograd will ensure close
ties and mutual respect in the spirit of communism. I express my profound conviction that the Revolutionary
Committee of the Bashkir Republic, and all advanced
Bashkir comrades, will make every effort to ensure that
the transfer of the Bashkir units takes place in the shortest
possible time and with the least possible burdening of the
railways. Please transmit fraternal greetings to the Bashkir
Red Army men.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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