572. TELEGRAM TO THE SAMARA GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 366

6. IV. 1920

Gubernia Executive Committee
Samara
Copy to the Revolutionary Military Council

Are you carrying out a sufficiently drastic clean-up of   the town? Please apply yourselves to this and make a frequent check on fulfilment. Are the bourgeois and philistines not dodging labour conscription? It is essential to exert every effort to discipline them.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of Defence