V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v2;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek); AI-translated.

6.
Dear Friend!

Last evening we read about the arrest of 11 people (including members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Fraction*) near Petersburg, and today we sent a telegram to Branting so that you could find out (le cas échéant through the Finns) whether the members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Fraction have been taken or arrested.

It would be a disaster if so!

But that makes your departure for Denmark all the more impermissible. I generally protest energetically against such a move. It is precisely now that you need to be in Stockholm yourself, to establish connections more correctly, more frequently, and more extensively. This is a difficult task, requiring an experienced person who knows at least one foreign language. It is impossible to leave this to “just anyone.”

If the police pressure you in Stockholm, you should hide in a village near Stockholm (that is easy; they have telephones everywhere).

I think Kollontai could easily come soon to Stockholm or a suburban place.

We are soon publishing No. 34, and then No. 35 of the Central Organ.

Reply quickly. We receive all letters from you. We also received the document of the Liquidators (their reply to Vandervelde). Thank you.

I firmly shake your hand and await news.

Yours, Lenin.

To A. Shlyapnikov.
25/XI [1914].