I travelled illegally to Russia. The business was difficult and dangerous; but it succeeded. The departure from Germany went hastily. It was being said that the two comrades had been arrested in Estonia on the return journey. The necessity was to immediately recommence the negotiations and to bring them to completion and if possible to send back a report to the KAPD, so that information from the KAPD could be received before the start of the Congress.
Having arrived in Russia, I found out to my joy that the news about the arrests of our comrades had been incorrect. They had travelled back via Murmansk and so were already in Norway on the way to Germany.
I also learnt that the congress was not to begin on the 15th June but only on the 15th July. What I further constituted was less pleasing. My first conversation with Radek was a real argument. Hours long. Partly highly vehement.
Radek is after all, lord and master of the KAPD. Levi and consorts are his willing parrots. They have no opinions of their own and are paid by Moscow. He, the wiliest of the wily, and the most unscrupulous of the unscrupulous, considering the perfidious lies and insolences which absolutely abounded in the Open Letter, felt of course something so like shame that he shied away from having to account for himself eye to eye with the insulted and libelled. The methods which I saw practised on me in Moscow aroused my strongest aversions.
However I decided to stay until the second delegate Comrade Merges Braunschweig , would arrive. That provided an abundance of impressions more unpleasant than pleasant. Russia was suffering in all of its limbs, from every disease. But how could it have been any different! Whose interests would be served then? Only the opponents of Communism. At the most against the methods and tactics employed by Russia to realise Communism. The Russian tactic is the tactic of authoritarian organisation.
