Lenin: 675. TO G. K. ORJONIKIDZE












V. I.

Lenin



675



To:   G. K. ORJONIKIDZE


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Written: Written in August, prior to 27, 1920

Published:

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.

Printed from the original.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1975,

Moscow,

Volume 44,

pages 423c-424a.


Translated: Clemens Dutt


Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala


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Comrade Sergo,

I am sending you reports delivered to me. Return them,
please, with your remarks about the facts: what is true,
what is
untrue.[1]

I daresay you get into a bad temper, on occasion, don’t
you?



You ought to get some assistants, perhaps, and direct
the work more systematically.

I hope you will not take offence at my remarks and will
reply frankly what you think you can straighten out and
correct, and how.

Greetings,

Yours,

Lenin




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Notes





[1]

On August 27, 1920, Orjonikidze received Lenin’s letter, to which
were appended extracts from a letter by A. S. Serafimovich, who
in the summer of 1920 was in the Caucasus. Being misinformed
about the political work of Party and administrative functionaries
in the Caucasus, Serafimovich in his letter adduced a number of
alleged facts casting a slur on the revolutionary activity of
Orjonikidze, a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the
Caucasian Front. In returning these extracts to Lenin, Orjonikidze
refuted all the accusations against him as being false and
groundless.

On receiving this reply, Lenin wrote: “I think Sergo (=
Orjonikidze) is incapable of lying.” (Collected Works, Fifth Ed.,
Vol. 51, p. 450.)




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