V. I. Lenin

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

15.

Dear Friend, Your plan regarding the April journey and the preparations for it seems to me quite correct. Indeed, we must settle on such a plan and prepare it as systematically and thoroughly as possible.

Thank you for the letters. We have written to you several times already. We also sent the sheets with the seals. I hope you have received all this.

Today we received No. of *Nashe Slovo*,\(^2\) which has begun to appear in Paris in place of the closed *Golos*. In No. of *Nashe Slovo* there is a statement by Martov (and Dan) about their differences with *Nasha Zarya*. Apparently, there is a big split among them (the Liquidators), and what will come of it is unknown. Axelrod is clearly “reconciling” the German (and Bundist) chauvinists with the Francophiles (and Plekhanov).

After Zurich, Martov sang to Axelrod’s tune, but whether he has “veered left” for long, we do not know.

We are bringing out No. 37 of *Sotsial-Demokrat* in a few days.

I firmly shake your hand and wish you every success.

Yours, V. Ilyin.

By April we shall try (together with you) to arrange correspondence and some connections.

You, too, must attend to this in advance.

[Postscript by N. K. Krupskaya.]

In England it is now extremely difficult to obtain documents.\(^3\) We inquired about this recently. Although, of course, personal acquaintance may help.

To A. Shlyapnikov.

[January 31, 1915]\(^1\)