V. I.

Lenin

801

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Comrade Zinoviev:

I do not in the slightest suspect you of being biased about Rozhkov.

Not in the slightest!

But in substance I very much fear that he will lie all he can, even if it is in the press . He will lie and we shall
be circumvented.

That is what I fear.

Their slogan is: lie, leave the Party, remain in Russia.

That is what we must think and talk about . [1]

Yours,

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the deportation of a once active Menshevik,
N. A. Rozhkov. The question of Rozhkov was repeatedly
discussed by the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C., which on
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October 26, 1922, adopted this decision: “Rozhkov to be deported.”
On December 7, reverting the decision of October 26, the
Politbureau decided to postpone his deportation and published in
Izvestia VTsIK his article on Menshevik activity and announcement
of withdrawal from the Menshevik Party, together with comments by the
editor Y. M. Steklov (Central Party Archives of the
Institute Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).
See also next document.