V. I.

Lenin

26

To:   KARL RADEK

14. I. 1918

Dear Radek, Trotsky or Kamenev will inform you of my point of
view. I fundamentally and radically disagree with you.
You are falling into the trap which the imperialists of
both groups are setting the Republic of
Soviets. [1]

With best regards, Yours, Lenin

Translated from the German

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Notes:
[1]
At the time of the Communist Party’s efforts to extricate Soviet
Russia from the imperialist war K. Radek’s standpoint was that
of the “Left Communists”.