Without knowing the facts and without giving them proper thought, you, with the memorandum, etc., have fallen into error.

If you wish to insist on it, submit a statement to the Central Committee. Until your statement to the Central Committee, until the acceptance of your resignation by the Central Committee, until a deputy is sent to you, until his arrival, you will, of course, as a party member (as you yourself write) perform your duty.

Gruss!* Lenin

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Written on August 3, 1918.

Sent to Berlin

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript.