V. I.   Lenin

482

TELEGRAM TO I. N. SMIRNOV

Written: Written on December 15, 1919
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 316^c-317^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Smirnov
Revolutionary Military Council
Omsk

Congratulations on the capture of Novonikolayevsk.   See that the Kuznetsk area and coal are seized intact. Remember, it will be a crime to forge too far ahead in the East, when it is necessary with vigorous energy....[1]

Inform me of the hour of receipt of this telegram.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

15/XII.

Notes

[1] The rest of the telegram has not been deciphered.—Ed.