An image is being shared on social media, claiming to show a secret letter that the founding head of government of Soviet Russia Vladimir Lenin sent to former Governor General of India Lord Louis Mountbatten asking him to divide India. An archived version of this claim can be found here. Is it true?: No, the clam is false as the image is AI-generated. AI-Altered Video of Akshay Kumar Speaking About Operation Sindoor Shared as RealHow did we find out?: We ran a reverse image search on the image along with a keyword search and could not find any reports on the letter. However, we were able to trace the image back to a meme page called 'Communist Party Of India - Memeist'. We then observed the letter and found certain logical errors.According to the claim, the letter was written in 1947. However, we found out that Vladimir Lenin passed away in 1924.We also closely read the letter and observed that the language in the letter does not resemble the language from the era mentioned in the claim, instead uses modern-day slang and abbreviations.Is it AI?: We submitted the image to SightEngine's AI-generated content detection tool, which flagged the image as AI-generated. Following this, we ran the image through the OpenAI detector, which concluded that the content was generated using OpenAI tools due to a detected SynthID watermark.The image was generated using OpenAI tools.2018 Video Falsely Shared as Current Condition of Government School in Punjab(Not convinced of a post or information you came across online and want it verified? Send us the details on WhatsApp at 9540511818 , or e-mail it to us at webqoof@thequint.com and we'll fact-check it for you. You can also read all our fact-checked stories here.)