Comrade  
Fritz Platten  
Dear Comrade Platten!  
Of course, it would be very good if you could come to us once more. They say that the Swiss atmosphere has a bad influence on you (this atmosphere is too petty-bourgeois, too “calm,” too “amiable”) — I permit myself to hope that our atmosphere may have a different influence.  
Goodbye  
Your Lenin  

P. S. All counter-revolutionary forces have gathered against us. A kulak uprising is raging. But I hope and am confident that we will smash them.  

Printed according to the text of the journal  
“Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte”  
1968, No. 1,  
translated from the German  
Published in Russian for the first time  

¹ The letter was sent by courier together with a letter to J. A. Berzin (see V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 50, p. 150).