TO AUGUST TALHEIMER, PAUL FRÖLICH

16/VI. Comrades
Konen, Talheimer, Frölich

Dear Comrades!

I have received a copy of your letter to the Central Committee of our party. Many thanks. I communicated my reply yesterday orally. I take this opportunity to emphasize that I decisively take back the crude and impolite expressions that I used, and I hereby repeat in written form my oral request that you forgive me⁴¹¹.

With communist greetings, Lenin

Translated from the German

Written June 16, 1921

Published for the first time from the manuscript