V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48; en:CW/CW43;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Comrade,

Your silence greatly surprises and depresses me. It is impossible to work without *Vorwärts*.

For the past three or four years I have been receiving *Vorwärts* free of charge—right up to February 1914. Suddenly it stopped!!

What is the matter? I am not writing myself, for fear of meeting with a rude answer (if this is an intrigue of the liquidators).

But perhaps it is simply a mistake?

I earnestly ask you to go to the dispatch department (by no means to the editorial office), explain the matter, and answer me at once.294 Nadya wrote to you about this long ago, but there is still no answer.

What is the matter? Are you ill? Do reply!

Yours, Lenin

I enclose the printed address for *Vorwärts*.

N.B.

I repeat: for three or four years I received it for *Sotsial-Demokrat*, *Rabochaya Gazeta*, *Pravda* in St. Petersburg, etc.

1914