V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v21;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro) from the Russian; AI-translated.

LETTER TO CLARA ZETKIN
July 26, 1918

Sehr geehrte Genossin Zetkin!

Besten und warmsten Dank für Ihren Brief vom 27/6, den mir Genossin Herta Gordon gebracht hat. Ich werde alles tun, um der Genossin Gordon zu helfen.

It gives us all the greatest pleasure that you, Comrade Mehring and other "Spartacus comrades" in Germany are "with us in head and heart". This gives us confidence that the best elements of the West-European working class will come to our aid—despite all difficulties.

We are now living through perhaps the most difficult weeks of the whole revolution. The class struggle and the civil war have penetrated deep into the masses of the people; in all the villages there is a split—the poor peasants are for us, the rich peasants are furiously against us. The Entente has bought the Czechs and Slovaks, a counter-revolutionary revolt is raging, the entire bourgeoisie is making every effort to overthrow us. Nevertheless, we confidently hope that we shall avoid this "usual" (as in 1794 and 1849) course of the revolution and defeat the bourgeoisie.

With great gratitude, best greetings and warmest respect,

Yours,
Lenin

P.S. My wife asks me to send you her special greetings. Best greetings to Comrade Hoschka (we have translated his speech, as well as your article) and to all, all friends!

P.S. I have just been brought the new state seal. Here is an impression. The inscription reads: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
Workers of the world, unite!

[Below is an impression of the seal of the R.S.F.S.R.—Ed.]