Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

258

To: L. B. KAMENEV

Written: Written December 3, 1912
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48. Sent from Cracow to Paris. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [1977], Moscow, Volume 43, pages 310^b-311^a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2005). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.

Dear L. B.,

Shame—shame—shame!

Not a word for Pravda about Basle!! What’s the matter??

You had five aides and not a single letter from Basle to us!!—not a single dispatch to Pravda!!

And why didn’t you give mandates to the “girls” (all those who were in Basle) when you had my blank mandate?

Yours,
Lenin