and then , led directly by the leader of the kharkov bolsheviks artyom sergeev.-krivoy rog war was proclaimed. the republic as a project for the preservation of these territories, industrial territories within the russian state, and the elected delegates who had the authority to do so were deputies from the councils, then the official government, and the donetsk-krivoy rog republic, it occupied the space that was extended to zaporozhye, kherson, part of nikolaev, dnepropetrovsk, kharkov, sumy regions, this is a very large territory, it is russian-speaking. then in 1918, even the slogan poster “donbass” appeared, the heart of russia, that is, the russians who inhabited what was then a very conventional ukraine wanted to live in the future soviet russia. however, lenin refuses the donbass workers. in a letter to arjunik, he says: guided. with the engineers who accepted soviet power there and so on to make an industrial republic out of it, in this way socialism would develop there, a decision was made, to quote verbatim, that means, to instruct comrade stalin to des