V. I.   Lenin

342

To:   THE ORGANISING BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE^[1]

Written: Written on May 30, 1919
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 239^a.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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I am for expulsion from the Party of people who take part in religious ceremonies.

Lenin

30/V.

Notes

[1] In a letter to the Organising Bureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) entitled “Pandering to Prejudices”, Y. M. Yaroslavsky asked the members of the Bureau whether persons who took part in religious ceremonies could be allowed to remain in the Party.