Polish Opposition at the Brussels Conference{1}

Written after July 5 (18), 1914 · First published in 1961 in Vol. 25 of the Fifth Russian edition of the Collected Works. Printed from the original. · page 334

At the Brussels conference the Polish opposition headed by Malecki went over to the liquidators. With these men deeds do not match words. Let us wait for the results of their July 3 bloc with Alexinsky, Plekhanov and the liquidators. Practice is the best test.


{1} The item was intended for the newspaper Trudovaya Pravda. In the margin of the page on which it is written, Lenin made a note for the editors: “Set this thing in brevier, and do not print any replies to their letters, nothing at all: let them all go to their new ‘brothers by bloc’”.

The item was not published as the newspaper was closed down on July 8 (21), 1914. p. 834