258. TO E. M. SKLYANSKY AND V. N. PODBELSKY (original) (raw)
V. I. Lenin
258
To: E. M. SKLYANSKY AND V. N. PODBELSKY
Published:
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1975, Moscow,Volume 44, page 193a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Sklyansky:
Forbid this playing at telegrams.[1]
| Written on February 10, 1919 |
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2
Sklyansky and Podbelsky:
Can’t you issue a circular putting a stop to these stupid telegrams to 100 addresses?[2]
| Written on February 11, 1919 |
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| First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI |
| Printed from the originals |
Notes
[1] Written on a telegram from the secretary of N. I. Podvoisky, Ukrainian People’s Commissar for Military Affairs, staling thatPodvoisky’s train had left Moscow for Kharkov. The telegram was sent to seven different addresses.
[2] Lenin gave this instruction to Sklyansky and Podbelsky, People’s Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs, after receiving a telegram from the Chief of Communications of Trotsky’s train. The telegram stated that this train had left Petrograd for Yamburg and was sent simultaneously to a large number of addresses.