Telegram to Andrei Kolegayev, May 21, 1919

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May 21, 1919

Kolegayev

Revolutionary Military Council, Southern Front

Kozlov

Copy to Sokolnikov, Member, Revolutionary Military

Council

Boguchar

Copy to Khvesin and Beloborodov,

Staff of the Commander of the Expeditionary Forces

From Beloborodov’s telegram of the 20th I learn monstrous news, that orders reach units several days late, while armoured cars have no fuel. I am putting pressure on here, pull things together in your own area. The Military Commissar at Tambov telegraphs that he has sent you 669 Communists to Boguchar and Ust-Medveditskaya. I am surprised that, having them, plus 2,000 Red Army cadets, plus a division, you are slow to take resolute action to crush the revolt, which must be done immediately. Telegraph in as much detail as possible.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars