172. To RAILWAYMEN COMRADES ON THE MOSCOW-KIEV-VORONEZH RAILWAY

First published on October 15, 1918 in the magazine Vestnik Glavnogo Voyenno-Revolutsionnogo Komiteta Moskovsko-Kievo-Voronezhskoi Zheleznoi Dorogi (Kursk) No. 33. Printed from the original. · page 361

I thank you with all my heart for your greetings and good wishes and, for my part, wish you every success in the cause of building socialism. The proletarian mass of railwaymen and clerks must overcome not only sabotage but also syndicalist strivings and inclinations, and I am sure it will overcome them.

With communist greetings,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Moscow, September 20, 1918