Date: 1919
Source: ru:PSS/v51


Source: CW vol 51

In code

Secret
Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front, Frunze

Having received Gusev's and your enthusiastic telegrams, I fear excessive optimism.

Remember that you must enter the Crimea on the enemy's shoulders at all costs. Prepare more thoroughly, check whether all fords for taking the Crimea have been studied.
16/X. 20

Lenin**

copies

* This phrase is written in V. I. Lenin's handwriting. Ed.

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First published in 1935 in the journal "Red Archive" No. 5

Printed from a typescript

** In the typescript copy, the following appears: "Written in the hand of Comrade Lenin". Ed.