Esteemed Comrades! With the greatest joy I have learned from my Finnish friends that you stand at the head of the revolutionary wing of the Finnish Social-Democratic Workers' Party and are waging struggle for the cause of proletarian, socialist revolution. I can state with confidence on behalf of the revolutionary proletariat of Russia that the great organizational talent of Finnish workers, their high level of development, and their prolonged political schooling in democratic institutions will help them successfully accomplish the socialist reorganization of Finland. We count on the fraternal aid of the revolutionary social-democracy of Finland.

Long live the international socialist revolution!

With warmest greetings

11/XI. 1917.

First published January 21, 1931 in the newspaper "Pravda" No. 21

Printed from the manuscript. Translated from German.