In order to put a stop to the lies spread by the bourgeois press, it is necessary to adopt the resolution proposed by Comrade Zinoviev. He proposes that a statement be made to allow through emigrants of all trends. We gave no undertakings. We only promised that on our return we would appeal to the workers to promote the exchange. If you recognise the exchange as correct, you will thereby refute all the lies. Otherwise you will provide fodder for insinuation and slander...

First published in 1925 in the book *The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. Minutes*

Printed according to the text of the book