V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO L. B. KRASIN

Secret

Personal from Lenin to Krasin
Russian Embassy, Berlin

I fully appreciate Joffe’s work and certainly approve it, but I emphatically demand that Joffe should behave as
an ambassador whose superior is the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and should observe the decencies, not
abusing and not slighting other people, and consulting the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs on all important
matters. Only then can I and will I support Ambassador
Joffe. I rely on your tact to impress this upon Ambassador
Joffe, and await a reply.

Lenin

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