V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v14;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — K. RADEK
[July or August 1915. Sörenberg]

W[erter] G[enosse]!

I am sending a letter about the “Vorkonferenz”.¹

Take a copy for *Lichtstrahlen*—or commission Wynkoop (if you are sure of his reliability) to forward it to them.

All this is vertraulich.*

Give a promise not to tell either Grimm or Balabanova or Trotsky or anyone at all!

Read my letter to Wynkoop and send it off.² I hope you sent the previous one! Drop me a line about it.

Either the German Lefts will now unite (if only for an ideological pronouncement in the name of the anonymous “Stern” group³ or as you wish: the workers will later join this group), [or then] or else we can spit on them.

(I understand that *Lichtstrahlen* cannot come out openly. But why should the “Stern” group of X + Y + Z not come out with a resolution or a manifesto?? And then privately and secretly distribute it??)

I don’t understand how you missed the Vorkonferenz in Berne!?! And you were still admonishing me!?⁴

Yours, Lenin

P.S. Is it not difficult for you to read Russian? Do you understand everything?

P.S. Either send the Berne resolutions (translation) directly to Wynkoop (if you have a copy) or send them here: we will take a copy.

* — confidential. *Ed.*