V. I.

Lenin

466

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

In your version of the “history” of “disagreements” there are
factual inaccuracies. For instance, before my departure from Berne, and
not at our last meeting, we discussed this point, and I not only
did not “let it drift past my ears”, but answered at length and
repeatedly , and you did not indicate by a single word ,
neither then nor a whole month later, that this question was still an open
one to you, that it was in the form of an ultimatum, etc. But, of course,
if you are bent on “squabbles”, in one form or another, then you have no
interest in the facts, and I am in no position to prevent you. It is left
for me to choose one of the two alternatives you propose. I choose the
first. Put my signature to it and print (25) impressions as quickly as you
can, for it is extremely difficult to get in touch with the Lefts at such
short notice. Your “private statement” will be printed, of course, not in
the C.O. but in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata simultaneously with the
publication of the Russian text.

Salut, Lenin