V. I.

Lenin

Postscript to the Appeal to Hungarian Internationalists [1]

I fully subscribe to the text of the appeal and believe
that the Hungarian proletarians at the fronts will bear in mind that
another few months of struggle for the interests of the international proletariat will bring us victory—a victory that
will be decisive and real.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This postscript was written to Bela Kun’s appeal on behalf of the
Soviet Government of Hungary to the Hungarian soldiers serving in the Red
Army. “You, Hungarian internationalists,” the appeal stated, “who are
fighting on Russian soil against the bands of Kolchak and
counter-revolution, are also fighting for the Hungarian Soviet Republic
just as your comrades are doing in Hungary, for Hungary and Russia today
form a single whole.” This appeal was issued in April 1919 in Hungarian
and promulgated on the civil war fronts.

The Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.C. of the C.P.S.U. have the text of the
postscript in Russian in the handwriting of L. M. Karakhan. It runs: “I
whole-heartedly support the appeal of our Magyar comrades. I hope the
interests of the international cause will come first with our Magyar
comrades, We must hold out another few months and victory will be
assured. Lenin”.