V. I.

Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO A. A. JOFFE

Russian Ambassador Joffe
Berlin

Immediately transmit our very warmest greetings to
Karl Liebknecht. The liberation from prison of the representative of the revolutionary workers of Germany is the
portent of a new era, the era of victorious socialism, which
is now opening up both for Germany and for the whole world.

On behalf of the Central Committee of the Russian
Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Lenin [1]

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Notes:
[1]
The names of Sverdlov and Stalin are also appended, in
Lenin’s handwriting.— Ed .