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Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, After March 23, 1916
Published: First published in 1964 an Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Zurich to Berne. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, page 525b.
In your version of the âhistoryâ of âdisagreementsâ there are factual inaccuracies. For instance, before my departure from Berne, and not at our last meeting, we discussed this point, and I not only did not âlet it drift past my earsâ, but answered at length and repeatedly, and you did not indicate by a single word, neither then nor a whole month later, that this question was still an open one to you, that it was in the form of an ultimatum, etc. But, of course, if you are bent on âsquabblesâ, in one form or another, then you have no interest in the facts, and I am in no position to prevent you. It is left for me to choose one of the two alternatives you propose. I choose the first. Put my signature to it and print (25) impressions as quickly as you can, for it is extremely difficult to get in touch with the Lefts at such short notice. Your âprivate statementâ will be printed, of course, not in the CO but in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata simultaneously with the publication of the Russian text.
Salut,
Lenin