Printing: it somehow smells bad that three people who fled abroad declare their solidarity! 218

Why don't they write to Rostov-on-Don instead, so that the Don Committee (which knows them and trusts them, of course) — 1) sends a declaration of solidarity and 2) gives us an official commission to publish a pamphlet about Rostov? Would it not be better to wait a little for such a declaration than to print a private letter?

Or are their addresses in Rostov not working? If so, let them give all instructions, and we will try to send someone to re-establish contact.

I shake your hand. Yours, Lenin

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Sent from London to Bern

First published in 1929

in the Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript