122. TELEGRAM TO D. Y. IVASHCHENKO

Written on July 4, 1918 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI. Printed from the original. · page 113

Ivashchenko, Commissar of Orsha Station
Orsha

Thank you for letting through 36 waggons to Germany: they are for our needy prisoners of war. Please refute all the foul slanders and remember that we should do all we can to help our prisoners of war.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars