V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO STALIN

Comrade Stalin, I ask you to give Comrade Meranville, who works in the R.C.I. and is known (though very slightly) as a member of the Little Council, about 15 minutes of your time. He has been expelled from the Party and, according to him, a crying injustice has been done in that they refused to interrogate a number of witnesses he named. Meranville came to me on some business long before the purge began and told me that he had belonged to a foreign circle long before the revolution. I could not recall this. Undoubtedly, people can be found who are in a position to verify this fact. Please send me the reply through Fotieva. 127

Lenin

Dictated over the telephone

December 9, 1921

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