Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

747

To: J. V. STALIN

Written: Written on July 18, 1922
Published: First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 560^c-561^a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Comrade Stalin:

I have given your reply very careful thought, and do not agree with you.^[2]

You can congratulate me: I have been permitted to read the papers! Old papers from today, and new ones from Sunday^[1]!

Yours,
Lenin

Notes

[1] July 23.—Ed.

[2] What the reference is to has not been established.