V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Comrade Dzerzhinsky,

Comrade Kollontai writes to me about Alexei Sapozhnikov, a youth arrested in Petrograd.

He was arrested, it is said, because he made his way into the war zone with other people’s documents.

He did this, it is said, because he “is morbidly fond of his mother,” and his parents were cut off during Yudenich’s offensive.

Kollontai writes that she knows Alexei Sapozhnikov as “an absolutely non-political person” “and, moreover, morbidly impressionable and nervous, who got into this business through stupidity.”

Kollontai is afraid that he may be shot.

1) Can you make inquiries?

2) —suspend the decision?

3) —or should I telephone Zinoviev?

Greetings! Yours, Lenin

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