V. I.

Lenin

The Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.

JANUARY 5–17 (18–30), 1912

GREETINGS TO THE GERMAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY

The following telegram was sent on behalf of the Conference to the
Central Organ of the German Social-Democratic Party:

The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, as represented by the
Russian Organising Commission and the Central Organ of the Party, sends its
ardent greetings to the fraternal German Social-Democratic Party on the
occasion of the brilliant victory over all the forces of the bourgeois
world it won at the recent elections. [1]

Long live international Social-Democracy; long live the German Social-Democratic Party !

| Written in January 1912 | |
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| Published in February 1912 in a pamphlet All-Russian Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. Central Committee Publishing House, Paris | |
| Published according to the pamphlet text | |

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Notes:
[1]
The January 1912 German elections to the Reichstag resulted in a great
victory for the Social-Democrats, 110 of their candidates being elected,
receiving a total of 4,500,000 votes.

Vorwärts published the message of greetings sent by the
R.S.D.L.P. in its issue No. 22 of January 27, 1912.