In my opinion, we must break them of this manner. Could we not break them of it like this: reply formally and in writing with a reference to the “note”. Then they will understand that we shall (soon) publicly mock them and *gifler* them for unsigned notes.

Yours, Lenin

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Written in the second half of September 1921  
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI  
Printed from the manuscript.