V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TOVARISHCH AXELROD

Copies to Comrades Zinoviev and Radek

I have received the German text of the resolutions of the Third Congress. On page 71, Article 2, I see the very same mistake and complete nonsense that appeared in the original draft.

Despite the fact that I pointed out this mistake at the Congress itself and at the same time handed over to the Secretariat a German pamphlet from which the correct quotations should have been taken, despite this, the mistake and nonsense remain in all their glory. I emphatically protest against such a publication of the Congress resolutions, which places us in a disgraceful and ridiculous position. I have repeatedly asked that at least a small number of the leading workers in the Comintern Secretariat should observe the law of individual responsibility. I request that you indicate who is responsible for such editing of the publication.

If the other resolutions are published in the same way, the whole booklet should be thrown into the fire.

Lenin