461. To G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written March 20, 1916 · First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Zurich to Berne. Printed from the original. · page 520

I forgot to insert a passage in both the theses and the article on “The Peace Programme”, and inserted it must be without fail.

Find a place for it (I haven’t got the rough copy) and be sure to insert it:

[[LEFT-DOUBLE-BOX-END:
The only unconditional demand which the Social-Democrats can put forward as a programme of peace without playing into the hands of the opportunists is: repudiation of war debts. And we put this forward in connection with the revolutionary struggle of the masses.^[1] ]]

Salut,
Lenin

Notes

[1] See present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 167 and 176.—Ed.