V. I.

Lenin

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To:   I. RUDIS-GIPSLIS

Dear Friend, I received your letter of 15/V. Regarding the Lettish supplement to
Pravda , I have my doubts. Isn’t it too early? And generally is it
proper for Russians to interfere in Lettish affairs in this form?

Send me, if possible, a translation (1) of your unpublished articles,
(2) of the worst of the “conciliator” articles in
Zihna [1] and the present legal Lettish newspaper.

The C.O. will soon come out. Send in an article on the Lettish
Congress.

I congratulate you on the successful May Day rally, especially in Riga
and St. Petersburg!

My regards to you and Herman (don’t tell me you have quarrelled with
him!).

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Zhina (Struggle)—a newspaper, Central Organ of the Lettish
Social-Democrats; founded in March 1904. Up to August 1909 it appeared
illegally at great intervals in Riga and subsequently abroad. From April
1917 it was published legally in Petrograd as the Central Organ of the
Latvian Bolsheviks, and afterwards in Riga and other cities. In August
1919, after the temporary victory of the counter-revolution in Latvia, it
began to appear again illegally in Riga. With the victory of Soviet rule in
Latvia in June 1940 it became the organ of the C.C. of the Communist Party
of Latvia and the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian S.S.R.