V. I.

Lenin

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FOR LANSBURY

In a conversation with Comrade Lansbury I promised to write about our attitude to
religion. [1] Comrade Krasikov has done this much better than I could have done, the more
so since Comrade Krasikov is specially in charge of these
affairs.

Lenin

2/III.

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Notes:
[1]
George Lansbury, editor of the British newspaper The Daily Herald , visited Soviet Russia in February 1920. On February
21 he was received by Lenin who had a detailed conversation
with him, in particular on the attitude of the Bolsheviks to
religion. On returning to England, Lansbury sent Lenin a letter in
which he wrote: “Many thanks to you and all your colleagues
for the help you have given me in my try to understand your