V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. M. MOLOTOV

Comrade Molotov:

Unless my memory fails me, I believe the newspapers carried a C.C. letter or circular about May Day, which said: expose the falsehood of religion , or something to that
effect.

That is not right. It is tactless. Just because it is the
Easter holiday, we should recommend something quite different :

not to expose the falsehood, but absolutely to avoid any affront to religion.

We should issue an additional letter or circular. [1] If the
Secretariat does not agree, then in the Politbureau.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
In addition to an earlier circular, the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee published a letter in Pravda on April 21, 1921, urging that
in celebrating May Day “nothing should be done or said to offend
the religious feelings of the mass of the population”.