376. To E. M. SKLYANSKY

Written at the end of June-beginning of July 1919 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50. Printed from the original. · page 259

Sklyansky:

Talk with Vatsetis at once for him to give the greatest attention to Penza and the Saratov-Balashov breach.^[2]

Lenin^[1]

Notes

[1] The document was signed also by Trotsky.—Ed.

[2] This refers to the offensive of General Wrangel’s Caucasian army, which was part of Denikin’s forces, in the direction of Saratov and Penza.