V. I.

Lenin

On the Publication of a Telegram Reporting the Pamphlet by Parvus [2]

To Comrade Molotov (for members of the Politbureau)

I propose that an inquiry be made as to who was responsible for publishing in
our newspapers the other day a telegram giving a summary of Parvus’s
writings.

When the guilty party has been ascertained, I propose that the

ROSTA [1] manager of that department be severely reprimanded and the journalist
directly responsible should be dismissed, for only a perfect fool or a
whiteguard could use our newspapers for advertising such a scoundrel as
Parvus.

Lenin

_DICTATED_ Dictated over the telephone February 4, 1922

_FIRST_PUBLISHED_ First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

_PRINTED_FROM_ Printed from the secretary’s note (typewritten copy)

2

Decision of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)

March 11, 1922

The Politbureau recognises that the publication of such a
telegram was improper, as it gave the impression of advertising Parvus, and
the editors of Party and Soviet news papers are directed to refrain from
publishing such telegrams in future.

_FIRST_PUBLISHED_ First published in 1964 in the Fifth Russian Edition of