The offensive of the Soviet troops of the Tsaritsyn area has been crowned with success: Ilovlya Station has been captured in the North, Kalach, Lyapichev and the Don bridge in the West, and Lashki, Nemkovsky and Demkin in the South. The enemy has been utterly routed and hurled back across the Don. Tsaritsyn is secure. The offensive continues.

People’s Commissar

Stalin

Tsaritsyn,

September 6, 1918

Published in 1939,
in the magazine Proletarskaya

Revolutsia, No. 1