TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO (February 23, 1918)

Written on February 23, 1918 · First published in 1924 in the book by V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko, Zapiski o grazhdanskoi voine (Notes on the Civil War), Vol. I. Printed from the telegraph form text. · page 482

Urgent. To People’s Commissar Antonov,
wherever he may be

Take Rostov today at all costs.

Lenin