198. TELEGRAM TO G. Y. SOKOLNIKOV

Written on May 19, 1919 · First published in 1934 in Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 3. Printed from the original. · page 390

Urgent
In code

Sokolnikov,
Member, Revolutionary Military Council, Southern Front
Boguchar

The offensive against Petrograd multiplies tenfold the peril, and the extreme necessity of suppressing the revolt immediately, at all costs. Telegraph how things are going— has the division which was landed got to work at last, are the Voronezh and Tambov Communists who were sent you arriving, do you need more reinforcements, and of what sort?—in as much detail and as frequently as possible. Delays are extraordinarily dangerous.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars