V. I.
Lenin

Speech at a Stone-Laying Ceremony for a Monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg Held in Petrograd, July 19, 1920 [1]

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Comrades, in all countries communist leaders are suffering
unimaginable sacrifices. They are dying by the thousand in Finland and
Hungary and other countries. But no persecutions can arrest the growth of
communism, and the heroism of fighters like Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg gives
us courage and faith in the complete victory of communism, ( Comrade Lenin’s speech was drowned in thunderous cheers. The
“ Internationale ” was sung .)

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Notes:
[1] This speech was delivered at a meeting of thousands of people on
Uritsky Square (formerly Palace Square) on the evening of July 19, after
the termination of the first sitting of the Second Congress of the
Communist International.