Via direct line through Rostov-on-Don
Baku, Orjonikidze
To be delivered through the duty political commissar
Please report receipt of the telegram without delay.

We have yet to receive a response to the encrypted telegram No. 1225, dispatched by Stalin on January 27, regarding the matter at hand. We are deeply concerned and earnestly request that you respond to us without further delay.

Moscow, Kremlin

February 5, 1921 – Lenin

Text signed by

V. I. Lenin

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First published in 1942 in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from typewritten copy