this was Bolshevik, but in future we should not accept such a battle, on the government’s provocation, which has already killed with provocations, from January 1919, 20,000 workers, until the majority proves to be for the Communists throughout the whole country, and not only in a small district. ((The July Days of 1917 were not a Bakuninist putsch. For such an assessment we would have expelled from the party. The July Days were a heroic offensive. And what conclusion did we draw: we will not prematurely carry out the next heroic offensive. Premature acceptance of a general battle – that is the essence of the Märzaktion. Not a putsch, but a mistake, mitigated by the heroism of the defensive of hundreds of thousands.)) On Šmeral. Can we not have at least 2-3 documents?

It would not be a sin to print for the Comintern at least 2 documents (2-4 pages each) about each country.

What facts about Šmeral? about Strasser?

Do not forget one of the main things: absolutely throw out from Radek’s first theses everything relating to the “party of waiting,” to the condemnation of this. Throw it all out.

On Bulgaria, Serbia (Yugoslavia?) and Czechoslovakia, pose the question concretely, separately, clearly and precisely about these countries.

If we have no agreement on this, I propose to convene the Politburo.

10/VI. 1921 Lenin