V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v36;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

[1918]

To Comrade Ioffe
Everything you write in your last letters is absurd to the point of being supernatural.
To pursue the “former” policy of non-break with the Entente after Onega¹ is ridiculous. You cannot make a lady with a child a virgin again.
It is also ridiculous to call what we are doing—continuing precisely the manoeuvring, letting the Germans take what the Entente has already taken and thereby hampering and delaying the Anglo-American-Japanese strangulation of Russia—intervention or aid.
Without knowing the facts and without thinking them over, you have fallen into an error with your memorandum, etc. If you want to insist on it, submit a statement to the Central Committee. Until your statement to the Central Committee, until the Central Committee accepts your resignation, until a substitute is sent to you, until his arrival, you will, of course, as a member of the Party (as you yourself write), do your duty.
Grufi! Lenin

¹ This refers to the occupation of Onega by British troops on July 31, 1918.