V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro) from the Russian; AI-translated.

I advise you to reply drily and sharply that the facts (such-and-such) completely refute their accusations against Rakovsky and others, and that if they continue to write in that tone, we shall declare them not Communists but hooligans¹*.

Fund 2, inventory 2, file 182, sheet 2 — autograph.

¹* Attached to the note is an envelope inscribed by V. I. Lenin: “Secret, personal, to Comrade Chicherin (from Lenin) against receipt.”

¹Written on a note from G. V. Chicherin to Lenin of July 15, 1919: “The sending of such radiograms by that conceited youngster is absolutely impermissible. Rakovsky is one of the finest figures of the International. And in the interests of the cause one cannot publicly behave so outrageously...” The correspondence between Chicherin and Lenin concerns a telegram from B. Kun to Kh. G. Rakovsky, sharp in form, regarding the arrest of K. B. Radek in Berlin. In this connection Lenin wrote to Kun: “I ask you not to get too excited and not to give way to despair. Your accusations or suspicions against Chicherin and Rakovsky are absolutely groundless” (Lenin, V. I., Collected Works, 5th ed., Vol. 51, p. 27).