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Telegram to Joseph Stalin, May 29, 1919
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, Volume 29, page 402
Stalin,
Smolny,
Petrograd
The circumstances of the whiteguard offensive against Petrograd, taken in their totality, compel one to assume the existence of organised treason behind our lines or, perhaps, even at the front. This is the only explanation for the attack with relatively small forces, the rapid advance and the frequent blowing-up of bridges on the main lines leading to Petrograd. It seems that the enemy is confident that we have no organised armed forces of any importance to resist him and that he can depend on help from the hinterland (the fire in the artillery magazines in Novo-Sokolniki, the destruc-tion of bridges, today’s news of the revolt at Oredezh). Please pay greater attention to these circumstances and take extraordinary measures to expose the plots.
Lenin