134. TELEGRAM TO S. P. NATSARENUS

Written on July 24, 1918 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 120

Natsarenus, Military Commissar Extraordinary
Petrozavodsk

I am passing your telegram on to the Commissariat for Food. The food situation now is as bad as it can be. We shall hardly be able to help. Everything that is best and most reliable has to be organised for sending detachments to the Czechoslovak front. Without victory over the Czechoslovaks there will be no grain.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars