V. I.

Lenin

Dear Comrade Varga, I consider it incorrect to put the question that way (supplying
information to the Comintern Executive or to the labour press or
to both?).

We need full and truthful information. And the truth should not depend upon whom it has to serve.

We can accept only the division into unofficial information
(for the Comintern Executive only) and official information (for everybody).

The former already exists and must exist separately; it must be
improved.

The latter, to become good, requires good organisation in the
selection of facts without a declaration that “we” are
Communists.

If the selection of facts is full, exact and goody then the
yellow labour press, too (especially the local and trade union newspapers)
will certainly buy and pay for our material. If that does not happen it
will be evidence of our poor legal work.

With communist greetings, Lenin

1/IX.1921

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