Telegram to Valery Mezhlauk, May 20, 1919

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20. V. 1919

Mezhlauk, Deputy People’s Commissar for Military Affairs

Kharkov

Report regularly twice weekly in code what you are doing to liberate the Donets Basin. I fear your energy is already flagging, and yet it is absolutely essential that Kharkov strain every effort in order quickly and resolutely to finish the job.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars