Slander must be exposed! July 1917

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To the people of Petrograd!

To the workers! To the soldiers! To all honest citizens!

Slander must be exposed! Slanderers for trial!

Against Comrade LENIN put forward an unheard-of accusation that he received and receives money from German sources for his agitation. Newspapers have already given this monstrous slander publicity. Already the underground leaflets are being printed with reference to the former deputy Aleksinsky. Already there are calls for the killing of the Bolsheviks. Already on the hands of deceived soldiers there are lists of persons who are subject to extermination.

The goal is clear: the counterrevolution wants the simplest way to decapitate the revolution by sowing turmoil among the masses and setting them against the most popular leaders, well-deserved fighters of the revolution.

We declare: everything that is reported about the money or other connections of Comrade. Lenin with the ruling Germany - lies and slander.

The initiator of the case was Alexinsky, a well-known slanderer who accused a number of persons of bribing the Germans, and already convicted of dishonest acts by the union of Russian, English, Italian and neutral journalists in France, and expelled for malicious slander from all democratic organizations in Paris, and not allowed into the Petrogradsky Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies.

We demand that the Provisional Government and the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies immediately and openly investigate all the circumstances of the vile conspiracy of pogromists and mercenary slanderers against the honor and life of the leaders of the working class.

It is necessary to shed light on the whole matter. And all the people will be convinced from this investigation that on revolutionary honor Comrade. Lenin does not have a single spot.

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