V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v39
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN
29/V I [1921]

Comrade Chicherin!
Please give me your opinion in a couple of words (can we help?
how? with what? him? her?) and return all this to me as soon as possible.

Yours, Lenin¹

¹ Written on a letter from the wife of the German revolutionary Erich Mühsam of Bavaria, describing the difficult situation of her husband, who was languishing in the Nieder-Schönenfeld fortress. K. Mühsam asked V. I. Lenin to write a few words to E. Mühsam and to render whatever assistance possible.
Erich Mühsam was a German poet.
During the period of the Bavarian Soviet Republic he was a member of the Munich Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. For his participation in the Bavarian revolution he was sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour.
In 1925 he was released before the expiry of his term. After the seizure of power in Germany, the Hitlerites arrested E. Mühsam; he was placed in a concentration camp and in 1935 was brutally tortured to death by the Hitlerite executioners.
On the first page of K. Mühsam’s letter Lenin wrote: “To Comrade Chicherin, see p. 4”* and numbered the pages 1, 2, 3 and his note—4.
The last phrase and signature were written by V. I. Lenin.