Telegram to Jospeh Stalin, June 30, 1919

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Smolny, Petrograd

Ekaterinoslav captured. Desperate munitions situation in the South Since you have received three million cartridges and the stocks at Vidlitsa[1] you must exercise the greatest economy of cartridges and other munitions.

Lenin

Written June 30, 1919

  1. The telegram refers to the stores of ammunition, equipment andfood captured by the Red Army on June 27, 1919 when the villageof Vidlitsa (on the east bank of Lake Ladoga) and the Vidlitsa Plantwere occupied; Vidlitsa was the chief base of the Finnish white-guards operating on the Olonets section of the Petrograd Front