[We have come to a meeting of the Sozialistischen Abstinen-ten-Bund1*, where, apart from other questions, there will be a discussion.

[KRUPSKAYA:] The audience here is as fossilized as at the Heilnatur. I suggest that we run to the back door; we must have the civic courage to get out of this sordid affair.

[LENIN:] Is it possible that the discussion has already taken place? So, you don't want to wait?

[KRUPSKAYA:] I don't want to!

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 4306 - autographs.

1* Socialist Society of teetotallers (German).

1Written on the back of the leaflet (typographical text) with the theses of R. Seidel's report "Staatsburger1iche und sozialistische Erziehung" ("Civic and Socialist Education"). There are notes of V.I.Lenin: "Received on 28/XI 1916 at the meeting", "Lenin".