V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v47;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

5. IV. 05.

Dear Friend, I cannot as yet say anything definite about the time. 28 I think you will have time to go to Liège if you can return on Sunday, or if you do not take a return ticket and do not come back to Paris (the best thing perhaps would be to take a circular ticket at once for 45 days, Paris—Liège, etc.—Paris). It is hardly likely to be before Monday, although, I repeat, I don’t know for certain. April 5 (today) was fixed as the last day for leaving St. Petersburg—ergo,* hardly before Monday.

So far there is no one here yet. Two people are leaving here on Friday—they may call at your town, but under the strictest incognito.

Have you seen Plekhanov’s Diary? 29 What a sad note of resignation! I am sorry for the old man; he is angry for nothing, and he has a good head on him....

Our line with the delegates must be an extremely peaceful one: we have “nothing to lose and everything to gain (if we win)”, whereas our opponents have the opposite. However, you will understand this yourself from the leaflet of the B.C.B. and the C.C. 30 and also from No. 13 (The Organisational Question). 31

Hurry, hurry, hurry with the report of the Committee of the Organisations Abroad, 32 the list of members and all the documents.

Au revoir. Yours, N. Lenin

Greetings to Kiska! How is she getting on?