Telegrams to the Tambov and Voronezh Gubernia Military Commissars, May 24, 1919

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Urgent, top priority

24. V. 1919

Gubernia Military Commissar

Tambov

Copy to the Gubernia Executive Committee

You informed me that you have sent Sokolnikov 669 Communists and will send 200 on the 22nd. Yet only three hundred have arrived. Check this and reply at once. Dispatch must be stepped up most energetically.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Urgent

top priority

24/V. 1919

Gubernia Military Commissar

Voronezh

Copy to the Gubernia Executive Committee

Report how many Communists have been sent to Sokolnikov. Reply at once. Dispatch must be stepped up with the utmost vigour.[1]

Lenin

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

  1. On May 26, 1919, Lenin sent another telegram to the Voronezh Gubernia Military Commissar (a copy was sent to the Gubernia Party Committee), stating: “Report immediately how many Communists have been sent to the Southern Front. Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars.” (V. I. Lenin, Voyennaya perepiska, Moscow, 1957, p. 133.)