146. TELEGRAM TO S. P. NATSARENUS

First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the original. · page 128

11. VIII. 1918

Natsarenus, Military Commissar Extraordinary
Petrozavodsk

I am very glad that you are energetically dispelling the doubts of Trotsky and myself, caused by the wholesale departures from the fronts.^[1] Send by a very reliable   person detailed information on the number, disposition and morale of the troops.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

Notes

[1] See Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, Document 252.—Ed.