Berlin

Convey immediately to Karl Liebknecht our warmest greetings. The liberation from prison of the representative of the revolutionary workers of Germany is a sign of a new epoch, the epoch of victorious socialism, which is now opening for Germany and for the whole world.

On behalf of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Lenin*

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Written 23 October 1918

Printed 25 October 1918

in the newspapers *Pravda* No. 231

and *Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee* No. 233

Printed from the manuscript