V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY

Thanks to Smith for his long letter. Let him write to Yegor, making a last
appeal to reason. Let Zarin go and see Yegor immediately, after obtaining
authority (full authority) to decide matters in Yegor’s countries. Arrange
all this with strict precision. You must act formally and, as regards the
Yegors, [3] you must prepare for a decisive war, and see to it at all
costs that any attempt of theirs to get into the committees meets with a prompt
and vigorous rebuff. You must be on your guard about this and prepare all the
committees. All the Yegors are carrying out and extending the boycott;
they are devilishly embittered, they have dreamed up a heap of imaginary
grievances and insults, they imagine that they are rescuing the Party from
tyrants, they are shouting about this left and right, they are stirring people
up. Their dissension has already deprived us (I don’t know for how long,
possibly even forever ) of two of our largest sources of
money. Please make the most desperate efforts to obtain money—that is the
chief thing.

And so, don’t let Smith look on Yegor in the old way. Friendship is at an
end here. Down with all softness! Prepare for the most vigorous resistance,
send Zarin at once, nominate candidates (in the event of
Smith’s death [1]

)

, and in the same event prepare Smith, too, for a trip “to
Yegor”, [2] appoint members to the Council , [4] put everything on a very formal footing and exert yourself to the
utmost. We shall cope with the matter of literature. We are putting strong hopes
on Vadim.