195. TELEGRAM TO P. P. SYTIN

Written on October 24, 1918 · First published in 1936 in the journal Partrabotnik (Stalingrad) No. 16–17. Printed from the original. · page 157

3 addresses: Sytin, Kozlov
Trotsky, Tsaritsyn
Voroshilov, Tsaritsyn

We are receiving desperate telegrams from Voroshilov about non-receipt of shells and cartridges despite his repeated demands and insistence.

Have this checked immediately, take the most urgent measures to meet his demands and notify us what has been done. Give names of persons responsible for fulfilment.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars^[1]

Notes

[1] The document is signed also by Y. M. Sverdlov, Chairman of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. He wrote the sentence “Give names of persons responsible for fulfilment”.—Ed.