TO THE COMMISSARIAT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

January 1, 1919

I send greetings and New Year congratulations to the faction of Communists. From the bottom of my heart, I wish that in the New Year we all commit fewer foolish acts than in the old year, and that the construction of Soviet power, to which the comrades of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs devote particularly arduous labor, be brought to a successful conclusion.

Lenin

*Pravda* No. 3, January 4, 1919

Printed from a typewritten copy, collated with the newspaper text