V. I.

Lenin

468

To:   J. V. STALIN

Comrade Stalin:

Please read this and pass on to Comrade Mikhailov.

I very strongly recommend the bearer of this, Comrade
Nikolai Alexandrovich Alexeyev .

I have known him since 1902 , when we worked together on Iskra in London.

He is a very well-educated Marxist, a Bolshevik and a comrade who is remarkably honest in doing his duty.

He has been tossed out into Siberia for about 10 years,
and would now like to make his way back to the centre. He
should be helped to move to the centre, because a ten-year
stay in Siberia is too much; worse than too much.

He should be replaced in Siberia by someone of the absolutely reliable, honest old Party men: the “Communists”
in Siberia have been committing a host of shocking things
and stupidities . [1]

Lenin