V. I.

Lenin

485

To:   SH. Z. ELIAVA

19. XII. 1919

Comrade Eliava, I recommend to you the bearer, Comrade P. N.
Lepeshinsky, [1] whom I know from abroad, from the Geneva of
1902, where we fought together against the Mensheviks.
Comrade Lepeshinsky will undoubtedly assist in just the
kind of work that should impress upon the indigenous population the idea and conviction that Soviet people
cannot be imperialists, cannot even have imperialist ways of
behaviour.

Greetings, Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to the appointment of P. N. Lepeshinsky to
Turkestan, where he worked as Deputy People’s Commissar for
Education.