Telegram To J. V. Stalin and A. G. Shlyapnikov

Tsaritsyn To People’s Commissars Stalin and Shlyapnikov

Written 11 June, 1918 · First published 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVIII · page 447 · Translated by Clemens Dutt; Edited by Robert Daglish

I have received Stalin’s third telegram and note. We are taking all measures. Tsyurupa says money will be sent tomorrow without fail, and orders have been given for the goods to be loaded today. Send through trains with a triple guard. Arrest saboteurs and hooligans and send them here.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
Lenin