Date: 1914
Source: ru:PSS/v50

# TELEGRAM TO THE ASTRAKHAN GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Source: CW vol 50

Astrakhan, to the Government Executive Committee
Copy to the provincial organization of communists
Is it true that in Astrakhan they are already talking about evacuation?

If this is true, then ruthless measures must be taken against cowards and immediately
select the most reliable and steadfast people for organizing the defense of Astrakhan

* The text from the word "Send" to the words "etc., etc." was written by V. I. Lenin on the back of the envelope.

V. I. Lenin also wrote the address on the envelope: "Comrade Berzin (in Bern), Ambassador to Switzerland". Ed.

** - War and the International. Ed.

TO THE POLITICAL COMMISSAR OF THE 1ST ARMY MEDVEDEV

and for implementing the firmest policy of fighting to the end in case of an English attack.

Telegraph a detailed response.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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First published partially in 1938 in the journal "Bolshevik" No. 2

Published in full in 1950 in the 4th edition of the Collected Works of V. I. Lenin, Vol. 35

Printed from the manuscript