It is proposed that decisive measures be undertaken as a matter of combat order to ensure the unfailing implementation within the prescribed deadline of the mobilization for the Astrakhan region of 1000 men and 4000 women in accordance with the resolution of the Main Labor Council of December 11, 1920, in full and without any modifications whatsoever. The responsibility for execution rests with you. Report weekly to the Main Labor Council on the progress of the mobilization by telegraph.

Chairman of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense
Lenin

Written March 25, 1921

First published in 1932 in Lenin Miscellany XX

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