...so that you could find out (le cas échéant* through the Finns) whether the 5 members of the RSDLP Fraction have been taken or arrested.

It would be a disaster if yes!

But then your departure for Denmark would be all the more impermissible. I generally protest energetically against such a move. It is precisely now that you need to be in Stockholm yourself, to establish connections more correctly, more frequently, and more extensively. This is a difficult matter, requiring an experienced person who knows at least one foreign language. It is impossible to leave this to "just anyone."

If you are pressed (by the police) in Stockholm, you should hide in a village near Stockholm (this is easy, they have telephones everywhere). I think Kollontai could easily come incognito** soon to Stockholm or a suburban place.

We are soon issuing No. 34, and then No. 35 of the Central Organ.

Answer quickly. We receive all letters from you. We also received the document of the 47 liquidators (their reply to Vandervelde). Thank you.

I firmly shake your hand and await news. Yours, Lenin

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Written November 25, 1914

Sent from Bern to Stockholm

First published in 1924

in the Lenin Miscellany II

Printed from the manuscript