V. I.   Lenin

392

TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE EASTERN FRONT


Published: First published on February 23, 1938, in Pravda No. 53. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 267a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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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


Notes

[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.


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