TELEGRAM TO THE SAMARA GOVERNORATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
April 6, 1920
Are you carrying out the cleansing of the city with sufficient radicalism?
I urge you to intensify efforts in this regard and to more frequently verify the actual implementation. Are the bourgeoisie and the common people shirking their labor obligations? We must pull together with all our might.
Chairman of the Revolutionary Defense Council
Lenin
* In a letter addressed to the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Party of “Left” Socialist-Revolutionaries (activists), “Senya” (S. Lavrov) announced his withdrawal from the party—which, as he acknowledged, had finally degenerated into a counterrevolutionary organization. This letter, titled “Open Confessions,” was published in the newspaper Izvestia on April 17, 1920.

1920