Who reported on 1 February in Olten? 448 Only Guilbeaux and Co.? They got cold feet, indeed!! They didn’t understand the task, they took fright!

I am unable to read in French.

I shake your hand and wish you every success. Greetings to Vyacheslav Alekseyevich!

Yours, Lenin

And how are things with the referendum? How many signatures? Are they continuing to collect them?

1917

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Written later than 12 February

Sent from Zurich to Geneva

First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript