Leon Trotsky: Telegram to Lenin

[Copy. Telegram No. 3606. True Copy. (From file No. 5 for 1918 of the Chancery of the Chairman of the RVS, part II) The Trotsky Papers 1917-1922, edited and annotated by Jan M. Meijer, The Hague. 1964, Vol. 2., p. 219]

From: Kozlov. Serial B.

27/12. No. 1525

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

Copied to: Moscow – Head of Chancery of the Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, Gotovytsky,

I draw your attention to telegram No. 527/sh from the C.-in-C., Vatsetis, about the unbelievable instances of disorder at the Moscow railway network, where regiments are being held up for several days at a time when switching from one line to another. The Moscow network is the main abscess in our transport system.

Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, Trotsky