463. TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY AND G. Y. ZINOVIEV

First published in 1941 in the book: Dokumenty o geroicheskoi oborone Petrograda v 1919 godu (Documents on the Heroic Defence of Petrograd in 1919). Printed from the original. · page 307

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1. XI. 1919

Trotsky, Zinoviev
Petrograd

The entire military and political situation requires the speedy concentration of very great forces near Petrograd, in order to crush Yudenich once and for all. I advise that this be implemented through the Commander-in-Chief or through the Politbureau.

Lenin