V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

ON THE TACTICS OF THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE COMINTERN

Comrade Zinoviev: Please communicate the following to the members of yesterday’s commission:
Dear Comrades,

I have been informed that my remarks yesterday in the Commission against—or rather, against some—Hungarian Communists caused dissatisfaction.¹⁷ I therefore hasten to inform you in writing: when I myself was an emigre (for over 15 years), I several times adopted a “too left” position (as I now see). In August 1917, I was also an emigre and submitted to the Central Committee of our Party a too “left” proposal, which, fortunately, was completely rejected.¹⁸ It is natural that emigres often adopt “too left” positions. Both before and now, I have been far from the thought of reproaching such fine, devoted, loyal and meritorious revolutionaries as the Hungarian emigres, who are so respected by all of us, by the entire Communist International.

With communist greetings, Lenin

July 7, 1921.