V. I.   Lenin

30

TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO


Written: Written on January 17 (30), 1918
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the text of the telegraph tape.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 59b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Antonov
Kharkov

I congratulate you on your victory.[1] I shall immediately transmit your demand to Moscow. Direct all efforts towards sending grain and more grain to Petrograd.

Lenin


Notes

[1] On January 16 (29), 1918, Soviet troops liberated the town of Cherkassy and Bakhmach railway junction, and mounted a successful offensive against Kiev, where the main forces of the Ukrainian Central Rada were concentrated.


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