220. TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

Written on August 9, 1919 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 416

In code

Trotsky
Copy to Rakovsky

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee requests that the Central Committee’s directive be communicated to all responsible workers: to hold out to the last, defending Odessa and Kiev, the communications between them and their communications with us to the last drop of blood. This is a question of the fate of the whole revolution. Remember that our help is not far off.

For the Political Bureau of the Central Committee,
Lenin