142. TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DRISSA TOWN SOVIET^[1]

Written on February 19, 1918 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the text of N. P. Gorbunov’s notes. · page 329

To Urban, Chairman of the Drissa Soviet of Deputies

Offer resistance where it is possible. Evacuate all valuables and foodstuff’s. Destroy all the rest. Leave nothing to the enemy. Take up the railway lines—two versts out of every ten. Blow up the bridges.

Lenin

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[1] Kursky, D. I. (1874-1932)—member of the Bolshevik Party from 1904, People’s Commissar for Justice of the R.S.F.S.R., 1918-28.