Published:
Published in full in the Fourth (Russian) Edition of the Collected Works.
First published, but not in full, in 1937 in the book: Y. Gerasimov and M. Erlikh, Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors, Boyevoi Put, Moscow.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1976],
Moscow,
Volume 35,
page 373.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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November 13, 1918
Ivanov, Chairman of the Unecha R.C.P.
Unecha
I thank everyone for the greetings. Am particularly touched by the greetings from the revolutionary soldiers of Germany. It is now extremely important that the revolutionary soldiers of Germany should take an immediate and active part in liberating the Ukraine. First of all, the whiteguards and the Ukrainian authorities must be arrested and, secondly, delegates from the revolutionary troops of Germany must be sent to all German military units in the Ukraine, so that they may take rapid and common action to liberate the Ukraine. There is no time to lose. Not an hour must be wasted. Telegraph immediately whether the revolutionary soldiers of Germany are accepting this proposal.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
N.B. |||
Urgent.
Top priority.
Report to me at what time Unecha received this.
[1] This telegram was Lenin’s reply to the following telegram, which he received on November 13, 1918 from Unecha Station ( Chernigov Gubernia): “The representatives of the revolutionary soldiers of Germany, delegates of the Lyshchichi Soviet of Soldiers’ Deputies, together with the Unecha organisation of the R.C.P.(B.), welcome in your person the world revolution. Representatives of the revolutionary German troops of the village of Lyshchichi __PRINTERS_P_609_COMMENT__ 39—01148 (signatures). Chairman of the Unecha organisation of the R.C.P.(B.) Ivanov. Revolutionary Commissar Lind. Commander of the Bogun Regiment Shchors.”
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