Telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front, July 19, 1919

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19. VII. 1919

Revolutionary Military Council, Eastern Front

Simbirsk

On my behalf please congratulate the 2nd and 5th armies on their victories.[1] Concrete measures against the guerrilla methods should be discussed in detail with political workers and carried out. Report results.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of Defence

  1. Lenin is referring to the capture of Zlatoust by the 5th Army (July 13, 1919), and of Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) by the 2nd Army on July 14, 1919.