To point 1, I propose the addition: to explain in particular detail 1) the actual connection of our Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries with the common front of landowners and the bourgeoisie against the Soviet government, paying particular attention to Savinkov's pamphlet "The Struggle Against the Bolsheviks" (Warsaw, 1920), as well as St. Ivanovich's "Twilight of Russian Social Democracy," because these books reveal particularly clearly what is known, of course, from a number of other documents—namely, that the right wing of the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries formally uses the name of the common party as a cover, but in fact acts completely independently; 2) to pay particular attention to explaining the identity of our Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries with the leaders of the II and II1⁄2 Internationals, the extreme harm of Otto Bauer's latest pamphlet, which actually proposes and preaches a panicked retreat before capitalism. We cannot treat such preaching other than we treated the preaching of panicked flight at the front during the war.
Point 2 I accept.
To point 3:
On this matter, I have doubts, because I think that establishing a precise requirement for unanimity should, it would seem, save us from mistakes, and general appeals on topics explaining the points approved by the Berlin meeting (defense of Soviet Russia, etc.),

will be extremely useful to us, because we will use them repeatedly in the future, exposing how our opponents have become entangled.
To point 4: I absolutely support.
To point 5: I have no objections.
To point 6:
I do not understand the meaning of this point, because I believe that the Berlin agreement must be ratified immediately, after receiving the official text of the adopted decisions, or, perhaps, even better to ratify immediately with the proviso that the very text published in Pravda on 9/IV is ratified.
I especially ask to obtain the rapid dispatch by special courier of the full text of the protocol of the Berlin meeting and to verify whether this protocol was signed by the official representatives of each of the three Internationals.
Lenin
Dictated by telephone April 11, 1922
First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from a secretary's record (typed copy)

Comrade Zinoviev!
To those points of the decision of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, on which we exchanged notes this morning, the following should also be added:
The criticism of the policy of the II and II1/2 Internationals should now be given a somewhat different character - namely: this criticism should be given (especially in those meetings where workers - supporters of the II and II1⁄2 Internationals will take part, and in special leaflets and articles for them) a more explanatory character, with particular patience and thoroughness, without scaring these workers away with harsh words, explaining the irreconcilable contradictions between those slogans that

their representatives adopted in Berlin (for example, the fight against capital, the 8-hour working day, the defense of Soviet Russia, assistance to the starving) and the entire reformist policy.
Perhaps, before printing this, it should be checked - have the Berlin decisions been ratified by the II and II1⁄2 Internationals.
Lenin
Dictated by telephone April 11, 1922
First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from a secretary's record (typed copy)