481. To G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written on December 15, 1919 · First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original. · page 316

15. XII.

Comrade Zinoviev,

I am sending you the decision of the Politbureau.

Two things:

1) Cannot 2 heavy sledges (Regress sleigh-cars) and 2 light ones be ordered urgently for the Southern Front?

Urgent. Reply.

2) Give special attention to the fuel shales near Yamburg.

It is of prime importance to exert the utmost efforts.

3) Materials (barbed wire and so on) must not be squandered or pilfered.

They will be needed. Attend to it.

Greetings,
Lenin

I am writing the article. If I don’t finish it today, don’t wait.^[1]

Notes

[1] This refers to the article “The Constituent Assembly Elections and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” (see present edition, Vol. 30, pp. 253–75), which Lenin completed on December 16, 1919.