Source: Tom 17

To Trotsky.

We intend to issue and distribute the order for the wholesale annihilation of Wrangel's command staff at the moment of our general offensive.

Stalin.

Source: Bolshevik Leadership. Correspondence. 1912-1927, p. 150. RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 1. D. 1875. L. 1.

NOTE

The aforementioned order has not been found. There is no other evidence confirming its existence. Evidently, the initiative here belonged to the addressee. The author's reaction to the telegram is unclear.