Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

THE VPERYOD FACTION273Committee). And now all these Vperyodists are sheddingcrocodile tears over the “inaction” of the Bureau of theC.C.! These Vperyodists, who are actually entirely “independent”of the Party, and are entirely anti-Party factionalists,write in a popular symposium that local organisationsmust be declared “independent” of the C.C.Another example. In the same symposium an anonymous“member of the Party” exercises himself in some hack writer’scriticism of the financial report of the C.C. BureauAbroad. Among other things the anonymous hack writeson p. 60: “What kind of ‘trustees’ [the report speaks of moneyreceived from trustees], why they are ‘holding in trust’,or have been ‘holding in trust’, money of the C.C., and forwhat ‘special purposes’ this money is destined, is somethingwhich nobody will understand here.”That is just how it is printed. Nobody will understand.It is written by members of that same Vperyod groupwhich had two representatives at the January plenum thatheard the statement of the Bolsheviks about their conditionaltransfer of money to “trustees” (i.e., to three of the bestknown representatives of the International Social-Democraticmovement). What money, from what source, whowere the trustees, and so on—all this was fully known tothe plenum, i.e., to all the factions, i.e., to the “Vperyodists”as well. Yet in a “popular” symposium for the deceptionof the workers, the Vperyodists write “nobody willunderstand.”It is written in that same Vperyod symposium, whosefirst two articles were signed by Maximov and Domov. 115Both these Vperyodists are perfectly aware of the wholehistory of the receipt of this money by the Bolsheviks andits transfer to the trustees. And now, since it would be“awkward” for them to come forward personally and declarethat “nobody will understand”, they select for this commissionanonymous hack writers, who call themselves “membersof the Party” on the occasion of their anti-Party conduct.Through these anonymous hacks Maximov and Domovin a “popular” symposium tell the workers a deliberateuntruth, that “nobody will understand” what kind of “trustees”these are, and so on. And these gentlemen beat theirbreasts and harangue against “factions” and “leaders abroad”.