And our reality has changed, for if Germany is beaten, manoeuvring becomes impossible, since there are no longer two warring sides between which we manoeuvred!!

Attention*. England will gobble up, if not... the Red Army.

In my opinion, we should not begin negotiations on the revision of Brest, for it would now be running ahead... We must wait.

Get well!

Greetings! Yours, Lenin

Written late September – October 1918

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript