_Malenkayal Gazeta_{123} today prints an appeal from a group of soldiers of the 4th Forward Automobile Sanitary Detachment to all their comrades in arms, demanding an investigation into the circumstances of Lenin's and others' passage through Germany.

Here is an honest voice, standing out from the stream of filthy lies, murky slander, and pogrom agitation. Indeed, every citizen has both the right and the duty to demand an investigation into any fact of public significance.

Here is the honest path of honest people, not pogromists.

And onto this very path, from the very first day of his arrival, Lenin and all his supporters from various parties immediately stepped. They made a report about the passage to the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies[43]; they named in the report the names of socialists from two neutral countries, Switzerland and Sweden, who signed the protocol concerning the journey and who heard all the documents. In the Executive Committee were Tseretelli, Tskheidze, Skobélev, Steklov, and others. They resolved to print both the report and the resolution of the Executive Committee in _Izvestia_.

Following the report, the resolution was adopted: "The Executive Committee, having heard the report of comrades Zurabov and Zinoviev, resolved to immediately appeal to the Provisional Government and take measures for the immediate passage of all émigrés into Russia, independently of their political views and their attitude toward the war."

Both of these were printed in _Izvestia of the Soviet_ no. 32 of April 5, 1917.

Is it honest? Is it reasonable not to reprint this report and resolution and to conduct pogrom agitation?

Did the comrades from the 4th Forward Automobile Sanitary Detachment act correctly, who are already hastening both to "brand" those who passed through, and to curse them as "traitors," and to send them "curses," and to shower them with other abuse, without having examined what was printed in _Izvestia_?

Does this not represent precisely anarchism, precisely a call not to respect the members of the Executive Committee chosen by workers and soldiers?

Written April 14 (27), 1917

Published April 15, 1917 in the newspaper _Pravda_ no. 33
Signature: N. Lenin

Printed according to the newspaper text

{123} _Malenkayla Gazeta_ – a tabloid newspaper of Black Hundreds character; published in Petrograd from September 1914 to July 1917 by A. A. Suvorov (the son); from May 1917, speculating on the masses' sympathies toward socialism, it appeared with the subtitle "newspaper of non-party socialists." After the February bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1917, it furiously opposed the Bolshevik party and waged the most vicious slanderous campaign against V. I. Lenin.