157. TO V. K. TARATUTA (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

157

To: V. K. TARATUTA

Written: Written in Geneva and mailed to a local address
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 47. Printed from a handwritten copy of the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,[1977], Moscow,Volume 43, pages 197b-198a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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1.XII. 08

Dear Comrade,

In reply to your query with Comrade Tyszka’s telegram enclosed I regret to inform you that I must refuse to pose the question as Comrade Tyszka would wish, for I believe that such a presentation of the question is absolutely in correct.

The representative of our group in the Central Committee Bureau Abroad, Comrade Victor, informed Comrade Tyszka that our group could not_agree to the appointment of both a Bolshevik and a Menshevik as_representatives of the C.C.[1]

Now Comrade Tyszka is appealing from Comrade Victor to me_personally_: “if Lenin himself objects to Igor,” the telegram says, “we shall give up Igor”!! This is tantamount to appealing_to me personally against a decision of our group_. I shall not reply to this “if” of Comrade Tyszka’s. In my opinion, Comrade Tyszka should himself withdraw his motion to appoint Igor.

With comradely greetings,
N. Lenin

Notes

[1] A reference to the delegates of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P., to the Sixth Congress of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania, held early in December 1908.