V. I.

Lenin

378

To:   A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV

25/XI.

Dear Friend, Yesterday evening we read about the arrest of 11 people (including 5
members of the R.S.D.L. Duma group) [1] near St. Petersburg and today we sent a telegram to Branting
for you to find out (le cas échéant through the Finns) whether the
5 members of the Duma group have been arrested or not.

It’s a bad job if they have!

All the more inadmissible is your departure for Denmark. Generally, I
strongly protest against such a removal. Now of all times you have to be in
Stockholm in order to organise contacts more properly, frequently and
widely. This is a difficult job that requires an experienced man, knowing
at least one foreign language. It simply cannot be shuffled off
onto “somebody”.

If you are molested (by the police) in Stockholm, you should hide
yourself in a village outside Stockholm (this is easy, they have
telephones everywhere). I think Kollontai, too, could easily come to Stockholm soon incognito or to some small place
outside town.

We shall soon be putting out No. 34 of the C.O., then No. 35.

Please answer quickly. We receive all your letters. The liquidators’
document ( their reply to
Vandervelde) [2] has also been received. Thanks.

All the very best. Awaiting your news, Yours, Lenin