TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE PETROGRAD COMMITTEE, R.S.D.L.P.(B.), February 21, 1918
Телефонограмма Петербургскому комитету РСДРП(б) 21 февраля 1918 г.
Tefonema al comité de Petersburgo del P.O.S.D.R.(b)
We advise the Executive Commission of the
Petrograd Committee and all district committees of the Bolshevik Party to rouse all the workers without a moment’s delay and, in accordance with the decision to be adopted this evening by the Petrograd Soviet, to muster tens of thousands of workers and to set to work all the bourgeoisie without exception, under the control of the workers, for digging trenches outside Petrograd. Now, when the revolution is in danger, this is the only way in which it can be saved. The line of trenches will be indicated by the military. Get your weapons ready and, the chief thing, organize and mobilize to a man. Lenin
Stalin
February 21, 1918
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TELEGRAM
TO THE PEOPLE’S SECRETARIAT,
UKRAINIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC
Five days ago General Hoffmann announced that the term of the armistice had expired,9 and two days later he started hostilities. The Council of People’s Commissars intimated its willingness to resume peace negotiations, but no reply has yet been received. The German Government is evidently in no hurry to reply, its idea being to pillage the country to the limit and only then to open peace negotiations. The Germans have captured Dvinsk, Rovno, Minsk, Volmar and Gapsal and are advancing on Petrograd and Kiev. Obviously, the object of the campaign is not only conquest, but, chiefly, the suppression of the revolution and its gains. The Council of People’s Commissars has decided to organize resistance from Petrograd and to mobilize the entire working population, and the bourgeoisie as well, and if the latter should refuse to dig trenches, to take them by force and compel them to do so under the control of the workers.
It is the general opinion of the comrades that you, in Kiev, should without a moment’s delay organize similar resistance from Kiev westward, muster every able-bodied person, set up artillery, dig trenches, force the bourgeoisie to do trench-digging under the control
Исполнительной комиссии Петербургского комитета и всем районным комитетам партии
большевиков советуем, не теряя ни часа, поднять на ноги всех рабочих, чтобы
согласно решения Петербургского Совета, имеющего быть принятым сегодня вечером,
организовать десятки тысяч рабочих и двинуть поголовно всю буржуазию под
контролем рабочих на рытье окопов под Петербургом. Теперь, когда революция
находится в опасности, только в этом спасение революции. Линию окопов дадут
военные, готовьте оружие, а главное – организуйтесь и мобилизуйтесь поголовно.
Ленин
Сталин
21 февраля 1918 г.
Aconsejamos a la Comisión Ejecutiva del Comité de Petersburgo y a todos los comités de distrito del Partido Bolchevique que pongan en pie, sin perder un instante, a todos los obreros, para que, a tenor con la decisión del Soviet de Petersburgo que debe ser adoptada esta tarde, organicen a decenas de miles de obreros y movilicen hasta, el último burgués, bajo el control de los obreros, a fin de abrir trincheras en los alrededores de Petersburgo. Ahora, cuando la revolución se encuentra en peligro, ésta es su única salvación. Los militares señalarán la línea de las trincheras; preparad las armas y, sobre todo, organizaos y movilizaos hasta el último hombre. Lenin Stalin 21 de febrero de 1918.
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