V. I.

Lenin

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To:   INESSA ARMAND [1]

P.P.S.

It has only just dawned on me, after rereading Kuznetsov’s telegram,
that it is evidently not a question of a report, but a meeting
commemorating 9.I! Announcing Malinovsky for such a meeting is
altogether impossible (for I have already written about
absolute legality, and I ask again and again that it be strictly
adhered to : neither the

Party, nor groups, nor revolution, nor
Social-Democracy should ever be mentioned ). As for me, you can put
me down on the list of speakers on January 9 if it is useful for your
success (financially), but with my right to let you down
( privately , I declare that even if I’m in Paris I won’t go to the 9.1 meeting together with such a bunch of assorted animals
as the S.R.s, and Leder
& Co.). [2]

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Notes:
[1]
This is a postscript to a letter of Lenin’s to Armand that has not been traced.— Ed .

[2]
On January 9 (22), 1914, Lenin addressed two meetings of
Social-Democrats in Paris devoted to the anniversary of January 9, 1905.