Written: Written on January 17 (30), 1918 
	Published:
      First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.
      Printed from the original.
      
Source:
      Lenin
	  Collected Works,
      Progress Publishers,
      1975,
      Moscow,
      Volume 44,
      pages 58c-59a.
      
Translated: Clemens Dutt
      
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
      
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17. I. 1918
Please issue to the Commissar of the Finlandskaya Railway 25,000 rifles and 30 machine-guns, required for the protection of Russian soldiers in Finland against the atrocities of whiteguard bourgeois detachments.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
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