V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY AND G. Y. ZINOVIEV [1]

Trotsky, Zinoviev
Petrograd

The Commander-in-Chief wires rejection of the request for dispatch of a brigade over and above the railway regiment and 2 regiments of the 6th Army, of which one is
already en route. I think this is correct, because there
is nowhere to take them from, and extremely fierce fighting
is still in progress in the south near Orel. For the time
being, reinforcements of 1,500 will be sent to you.
Measures have been taken to send Letts in addition, if they
can be found. It is proposed to give you 600 men from the
Soviet
School. [2]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Transmitted by direct line.— Ed .

[2]
By a decision of the Central Committee of the Party, more than
half the graduating class of Communist students of the Sverdlov
University were sent to the front. On October 24, 1919, Lenin
delivered a speech to the students of the University who were
leaving for the front (see present edition, Vol. 30, pp. 76–84)