Telegram to Christian Rakovsky, May 28, 1919

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In code

Rakovsky

Kiev[1]

Directive of the CC[edit source]

Concentrate all forces on the Donets Basin, take all you can from the Western Front, reducing to a minimum all active operations on your Western Front. Send Pyatakov and Bubnov to Kharkov and Ekaterinoslav, for the most complete, energetic mobilisation of workers for the Southern Front on their personal responsibility.[2]

Lenin[3]

  1. The words “In code”, “Rakovsky, Kiev” are in Lenin’s handwriting.—Ed.
  2. On the same day, May 28, 1919, another telegram, signed by Lenin, Krestinsky and Kamenev, was sent by direct line to Rakovsky, Chairman of the Ukrainian Council of People’s Commissars. It contained the full text of the decision adopted by the CC of the RCP(b) and outlined concrete measures for its fulfilment (see Lenin Miscellany XXXIV, p. 153).
  3. The document was signed also by Krestinsky and Kamenev.—Ed.