V. I.   Lenin

SPEECH AT A MEETING OF
ThE PETROGRAD SOVIET EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON APRIL 4 (17), 1917 ON THE QUESTION OF THE PASSAGE ACROSS GERMANY


Published: First published in 1925 in the book: Petrogradsky Sovet rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov. Protokoly (The Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. Minutes), State Publishing House. Printed from the text in the book.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, page 433.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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In order to put an end to the lies being spread by the bourgeois press, it is essential to adopt the resolution proposed by Comrade Zinoviev. He proposes a statement that émigrés of all trends should be allowed through. We undertook no obligations at all. We only promised that on our return we would appeal to the workers to help the exchange. If you recognise that exchange is right, you will thereby refute all the lies. Otherwise you will give food for insinuation and slander....


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