Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

146

TELEGRAM TO S. P. NATSARENUS

Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 128^b-129^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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11. VIII. 1918

Natsarenus, Military Commissar Extraordinary
Petrozavodsk

I am very glad that you are energetically dispelling the doubts of Trotsky and myself, caused by the wholesale departures from the fronts.^[1] Send by a very reliable person detailed information on the number, disposition and morale of the troops.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] See Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, Document 252.—Ed.