Fragment of Conversation with Anvelt of your border from the west? 3) third: how are the esteemed barons feeling, what has become of them? 4) fourth: what, in your opinion, should the Council of People's Commissars undertake in relation to the barons in order to demonstrate such outward kindness, and this demonstration should in no way weaken the force of repression against the aforementioned barons???
Lenin *
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1 Ya. Ya. Anvelt – one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks of Estonia. The conversation was prompted by a telegram from Anvelt from Reval to the Council of People's Commissars, reporting the exposure of a conspiracy of former Baltic nobles in connection with the upcoming German offensive on Estland (see TsPAIML under the Central Committee of the CPSU).