Leon Trotsky: Telegram to Lenin

Telegram. True Copy.(From files of outgoing papers of the Field Chancery No. 1 for 1919, part II) The Trotsky Papers 1917-1922, edited and annotated by Jan M. Meijer, The Hague. 1964, Vol. 2., p. 237]

From: Voronezh

2/1.1919. No. 43

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

Copied to: People’s Commissariat of Supply.

Central Supply Administration.

I again draw your attention to the difficult situation as regards food supplies in the Petrograd military district where large scale formation of military units is taking place.

Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee, Trotsky