Written: Written between April 9 and 21, 1921
Published:
First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1976,
Moscow,
Volume 45,
pages 119c-120a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Comrade Molotov:
Unless my memory fails me, I believe the newspapers carried a C.C. letter or circular about May Day, which said: expose the falsehood of religion, or something to that effect.
That is not right. It is tactless. Just because it is the Easter holiday, we should recommend something quite different:
not to expose the falsehood,
but absolutely to avoid any affront to religion.
We should issue an additional letter or circular.[1] If the Secretariat does not agree, then in the Politbureau.
[1] In addition to an earlier circular, the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee published a letter in Pravda on April 21, 1921, urging that in celebrating May Day “nothing should be done or said to offend the religious feelings of the mass of the population”.
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