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A Necessary Clarification
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 26 July 1933 |
L'Humanité speaks of Trotsky's journey with "his retinue” of secretaries, stenographers, etc. It goes without saying that the Stalinist editors spare no insults in relation to this so-called "retinue."
I And it necessary to set the record straight I was accompanied on the way by young comrades who came at different times to Prinkipo on their own initiative and helped me in my work, not as "salaried secretaries," but as friends united by die same banner.
The same may be said for the comrades who met me on my arrival and helped me to settle in France I do not fear that they themselves can be affected by base and ineffectual insults emanating from the bureaucratic heights where everything is based on considerations of career and where revolutionary solidarity has been completely forgotten if it was ever understood.