30. TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

Written on January 17 (30), 1918 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the text of the telegraph tape. · page 59

Antonov
Kharkov

I congratulate you on your victory.^[1] I shall immediately transmit your demand to Moscow. Direct all efforts towards sending grain and more grain to Petrograd.

Lenin

Notes

[1] On January 16 (29), 1918, Soviet troops liberated the town of Cherkassy and Bakhmach railway junction, and mounted a successful offensive against Kiev, where the main forces of the Ukrainian Central Rada were concentrated.