V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

3. VIII. 1918

Comrade Berzin,

The bearers are Italian prisoners of war, who have given us a recommendation from the Chairman of the Ufa Soviet. I have seen them twice and am very pleased with the impression I got from talking to them. The utmost caution must be observed, and they must be helped in every way to organise work and publications among the Italians, in the Italian language.

Thank you for your letters.

You seem to be working energetically. Greetings!

For heaven’s sake, do not stint money on publications (in German, French, Italian and English) and be quick, quick.

This is a critical moment: the struggle against the British and the Czechoslovaks, and the kulaks. The fate of the revolution is being decided.

Yours, Lenin