V. I.

Lenin

Today’s issue of Zhivoye Slovo , an obviously Black
Hundred type of paper, carries low, foul slander against Lenin.

Pravda cannot appear because its premises were wrecked by military cadets on the night of July 4-5. This accounts for
the delay in publishing a detailed refutation of the foul
slander.

For the time being we declare that the Zhivoye Slovo report is slander and that on the night of July 4-5
Chkheidze rang up all the big papers , asking them not to publish slanderous, riot-raising articles. The big papers
complied with Chkheidze’s request, and on July 5 none of them
published the infamous slander , with the exception of the filthy Zhivoye Slovo .

Alexinsky is so well known as a slanderer that he has not been admitted to the Executive Committee of the Soviet
until he rehabilitates himself, i. e., until he redeems his honour .

Citizens! Don’t believe those foul slanderers, Alexinsky and
Zhivoye Slovo .

Zhivoye Slovo’s slander is evident at a glance from the
following: the paper writes that on May 16 a letter (No. 3719) accusing Lenin was sent to Kerensky from the General
Staff. Obviously, Kerensky would have been duty bound to have
Lenin arrested Immediately and to order a government investigation , had he for a single moment believed those
accusations or suspicions to he serious.

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