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Letter to the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b) with a Draft of Directives to Comrades Travelling Abroad
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, pages 407b-408a.
To Comrade Molotov for members of the Politbureau
In view of Comrade Radekâs trip abroad, and Comrade Sosnovskyâs, too, I hear,
âin view of the fact that a flair for diplomacy is not one of the strong points of these most valuable and important workers, I propose that the following directive be issued by the Politbureau:
âThe Politbureau impresses upon all comrades travelling abroad that the present moment calls, on the one hand, for the greatest restraint in utterances and talks about the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, and, on the other hand, for a relentless struggle against and the greatest distrust towards them (as the most dangerous de facto accomplices of the whiteguards)â.
17/III. Lenin
P.S. Please get this voted by telephone.[1]
Lenin
- â The Politbureau adopted Leninâs proposal on March 15, 1922.