Leon Trotsky: Telegram to Lenin

Copy. Telegram. True Copy (File of outgoing communications for 1918) The Trotsky Papers 1917-1922, edited and annotated by Jan M. Meijer, The Hague. 1964, Vol. 2., p. 225]

From: Kozlov

30/XII. No. 1620

To: Moscow – Chairman of the Council of Defence, Lenin.

The South-Eastern Railway has requisitioned in Voronezh the fuel stocks of the Soviet of Deputies, which is threatened by the cold. I once again remind you of the necessity of taking extreme measures to induce the other lines to deliver firewood here and supply oil-burning locomotives.

Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, Trotsky