Lenin: 406. TELEGRAM TO YEVETSKY (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

406

TELEGRAM TO YEVETSKY

Written: Written on August 8, 1919
Published: First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the typewritten text signed by Lenin.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, page 274b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Yevetsky, Chief of Supplies, Southern Front

During July you were sent a considerable quantity of uniforms and footwear.

Despite this, in all the armies on the Southern Front some units are without boots or clothing.

On pain of being held personally answerable, I order you to take vigorous measures to immediately distribute what has been received among the needy units.[1]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence

Notes

[1] At the top of the telegram Lenin wrote: “Comrade Sklyansky, send ciphered or clear, whichever more convenient. 8/VIII. Lenin.”—Ed.