Memo Combatting Dominant Nation Chauvinism

V. I. Lenin

MEMO TO THE POLITICAL BUREAU
ON COMBATING
DOMINANT NATION CHAUVINISM

Written on October 6, 1922

First published in Pravda
No. 21 on January 21, 1937

Published according to
the manuscript

From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1966

Vol. 33, p. 372.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by David Skvirsky
and George Hanna

Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (July 2000)

page 372

MEMO TO THE POLITICAL BUREAU ON COMBATING
DOMINANT NATION CHAUVINISM

I declare war to the death on dominant nation chauvinism. I shall eat it with all my healthy teeth as soon as I get rid of this accursed bad tooth.

It must be absolutely insisted that the Union Central Executive Committee should be presided over in turn by a:
Russian,
Ukrainian,
Georgian, etc.
Absolutely!

Yours,
Lenin

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MEMO TO THE POLITICAL BUREAU ON COMBATING DOMINANT NATION CHAUVINISM

MEMO TO THE POLITICAL BUREAU
ON COMBATING
DOMINANT NATION CHAUVINISM