189. TELEGRAM TO K. G. RAKOVSKY, V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO, N. I. PODVOISKY, L. B. KAMENEV

Written on April 24, 1919 · First published in 1934 in Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 3. Printed from the original. · page 381

Rakovsky, Antonov, Podvoisky, Kamenev
Kiev

At all costs, using all your strength and, as rapidly as possible, help us to finish off the Cossacks and take Rostov, even at the price of a temporary weakening in the west of the Ukraine, since otherwise we are threatened with destruction.

Lenin