from Bern and not during our last meeting did we discuss this point, and not only did I not “let it pass by my ears,” but I answered in detail and repeatedly, whereupon you did not by a single word indicate either then, or for a whole month afterwards, that for you the question was unresolved, of an ultimative nature, and so on. But, of course, if you absolutely want one or another “rupture,” then facts do not matter to you, and I am in no position to hinder you. It remains for me to choose one of the two exits you propose. I choose the first one. Affix my signature and print the offprints (25) as soon as possible, for it is exceedingly difficult to communicate with the left in the short time now remaining. Your “statement on your own behalf” will go, of course, not in the Central Organ, but in the “Sbornik ‘Sotsial-Demokrata’” simultaneously with the printing of the Russian text.

Salut. Lenin

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