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Lenin

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REPLY BY DIRECT LINE TO K. A. MEKHONOSHIN [1]

Lenin replies:

Kolegayev told me personally as well as Zinoviev and many others, that he, Kolegayev, is opposed to the present
policy of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Party. I do not
doubt that the crazily hysterical and provocative adventure
culminating in the murder of Mirbach and revolt of the
Central Committee of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
against the Soviet power will lose them not only the majority of their workers and peasants, but also many
intellectuals. The revolt was suppressed completely in a single
day. Hundreds of people have been arrested.

Put on record Muravyov’s declaration of his withdrawal from the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Party, and continue
to keep him under vigilant control. I am confident that if
these conditions are observed we shall fully succeed in
utilising his excellent fighting qualities. The struggle
against the Czechoslovaks and Cossacks must be waged with treble energy.

Lenin