V. I. Lenin

Calling Everybody

A number of newspapers abroad have published false reports of horrors and chaos in
Petrograd, etc.

All these reports are absolutely untrue. There is complete calm
in Petrograd and Moscow. No socialists have been arrested. Kiev
is in the hands of the Ukrainian Soviet authorities. The Kiev
bourgeois Rada has fallen and dispersed. The authority of the
Ukrainian Soviet in Kharkov has been fully recognised. On the
Don, 46 Cossack regiments have revolted against
Kaledin. Orenburg has been taken by the Soviet authorities and
the Cossack ataman, Dutov, has been routed and is in flight. In
Finland, the victory of the Finnish workers' government is being
rapidly consolidated, the counter-revolutionary whiteguard
troops have been pushed back to the North, and the workers'
victory over them is certain.

There has been an improvement in the food situation in
Petrograd. Today, January 22, 1918, old style, Petrograd workers
are sending 10 carloads of food to aid the Finns.

Information about Germany is very scarce. The Germans are
clearly concealing the truth about the revolutionary movement in
Germany. Trotsky has telegraphed to Petrograd from Brest-Litovsk
that the Germans are dragging out the talks. The German
bourgeois press, obviously given its cue, is spreading false
reports about Russia to intimidate the public.

A decree on the complete separation of church and state and the
confiscation of all church property was published yesterday,
January 21, 1918.