V. I.

Lenin

We are very grateful to the chauvinist newspaper, Volya Naroda [1]
for publishing (in its issue of June 4) our documents relating to our passage through Germany. It is evident from these
documents that even at that time we found Grimm’s behaviour “ambiguous” and declined his services.

That is a fact, and facts cannot be talked away.

Our answer to the vague insinuations of Volya Naroda is: don’t be cowards,
gentlemen, accuse us openly of such- and-such a crime or
misdemeanour! Have a go! Is it really hard to understand that it
is dishonest to make vague insinuations because of a fear
to come out with an accusation over one’s signature?