38. TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

Written on January 30 (February 12), 1918 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the text written by Lenin and Stalin and signed by Lenin. · page 62

Commander-in-Chief Antonov
Nikitovka^[1]

We have nothing against the appointment of Kozhevnikov. Make contact with Obolensky and the All-Ukraine   C.E.C. Do not act without agreement with Obolensky and the C.E.C.; if there are no objections on their part, we agree to the appointment of Kozhevnikov as Commissar Extraordinary of the Donets Basin.

Lenin

Notes

[1] The address and sentences: “We have nothing against” and “Do not act without agreement with Obolensky and the C.E.C.” were written in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.