Telegram to Grigori Sokolnikov, May 19, 1919

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Urgent

In code

Sokolnikov,

Member, Revolutionary Military Council, Southern Front

Boguchar

The offensive against Petrograd multiplies tenfold the peril, and the extreme necessity of suppressing the revolt immediately, at all costs. Telegraph how things are going— has the division which was landed got to work at last, are the Voronezh and Tambov Communists who were sent you arriving, do you need more reinforcements, and of what sort?—in as much detail and as frequently as possible. Delays are extraordinarily dangerous.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars