29. To THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR MILITARY AFFAIRS

Written on January 17 (30), 1918 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 58

17. I. 1918

Please issue to the Commissar of the Finlandskaya Railway 25,000 rifles and 30 machine-guns, required for the   protection of Russian soldiers in Finland against the atrocities of whiteguard bourgeois detachments.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars