V. I.

Lenin

SPEECH AT A MEETING OF ThE PETROGRAD SOVIET EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON APRIL 4 (17), 1917 ON THE QUESTION OF THE PASSAGE ACROSS GERMANY

MINUTES

In order to put an end to the lies being spread by the bourgeois press, it is essential to adopt the resolution proposed by
Comrade Zinoviev. He proposes a statement that émigrés of all trends should be allowed through. We undertook no
obligations at all. We only promised that on our return we
would appeal to the workers to help the exchange. If you
recognise that exchange is right, you will thereby refute all
the lies. Otherwise you will give food for insinuation and
slander....

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