Telegram to Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, February 12, 1918

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Published: First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original.

Commander-in-Chief Antonov

Nikitovka

Petrol shortage threatens to bring the mines to a standstill; it will be impossible to pump out the water. We urgently ask you, if there is the slightest military possibility, to send all petrol to the mines, at the disposal of the Kharkov Regional Economic Council, 27 Sumskaya.

Lenin


Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the text written by Lenin and Stalin and signed by Lenin.

Commander-in-Chief Antonov

Nikitovka[1]

We have nothing against the appointment of Kozhevnikov. Make contact with Obolensky and the All-Ukraine CEC. Do not act without agreement with Obolensky and the CEC; if there are no objections on their part, we agree to the appointment of Kozhevnikov as Commissar Extraordinary of the Donets Basin.

Lenin

  1. ↑ The address and sentences: “We have nothing against” and “Do not act without agreement with Obolensky and the CEC.” were written in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.