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To:   I. FRIMOU

Dear Comrade, Two political emigrants, Nikita Pashev and Ivan Demidovsky, worked at
an airdrome in Kitil for a Mr. Cherkez. Mr. Cherkez dismissed his workers
without paying them the money due them. But with Nikita Pashev things
proved more complicated since he had been working on contract. Cherkez
wanted to get rid of N. Pashev, knowing that Nikita and Ivan, being
political emigrants, had to re main silent. He trumped up charges against
Nikita Pashev, claiming that he had removed some bolts from an
airplane. Nikita was detained, and Ivan probably as well. I know very well
that both (Nikita Pashev and Ivan Demidovsky), being political emigrants,
are incapable of anything of the kind. I would therefore ask you, dear
comrade, to intercede in the case, which may lead to the extradition of our
comrades. Please accept, dear comrade, my fraternal greetings.

N. Lenin ( Vl. Ulyanov ), Representative of Russian Social-Democracy in the International Socialist Bureau

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