404. TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original. · page 273

7. VIII. 1919

Zinoviev
Smolny
Petrograd

It has been fully ascertained that only Petrograd can provide workers for the cartridge factories. The Sestroretsk Works and the Pipe Works must be made at all costs to provide the necessary hands at once. Red tape is impermissible, criminal, for without cartridges we are lost. Put on all your pressure and see to fulfilment.

Lenin