V. I.   Lenin

TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF M. A. MURAVYOV, TO THE SUPREME RUMANIAN BOARD, TO THE PEOPLE’S SECRETARIAT OF THE UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC, FOR V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO


Written: Written on February 17, 1918
Published: First published in 1924 in the book by V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko, Zapiski o grazhdanskoi voine (Notes on the Civil War), Vol. I. Printed from the telegraph form text.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, page 477.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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To Yudovsky, Rumcherod,[1] for transmission to Commander-in-Chief Muravyov, Odessa, for Commander-in– Chief Muravyov, to the Supreme Rumanian Board, to the People’s Secretariat of the Ukrainian Republic for Antonov 

In view of the serious situation on the Russo-Rumanian front and the need for urgent support of the revolutionary detachments in Bessarabia, Commander-in-Chief Muravyov and his northern army are seconded to the Supreme Rumanian Board. We do not doubt for a moment that the valiant heroes of the liberation of Kiev will do their revolutionary duty without delay.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars


Notes

[1] Rumcherod—Central Executive Committee of Soviets of the Rumanian Front, Black Sea Fleet and Odessa Region.


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