V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v37; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

1. The successes of the international proletarian revolution are creating an intensification of the counter-revolutionary resistance of the international bourgeoisie and the Entente at its head...

2. Germany is trying to reach a direct agreement with the Entente against the revolution of the proletariat and Soviet power in Russia, and while a direct one is not forthcoming, one section of the German bourgeoisie is attempting to achieve it indirectly (and not formally) by rendering services to the Entente and by currying favour with it in the regions against the Bolsheviks.

+ and the bourgeoisie of all the occupied [countries]

3. This peculiar situation is creating an aggravation of the danger to Soviet power; there is taking shape—and very close at hand—the possibility of an attack by the Entente on the south of Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, or through Bulgaria and Rumania, probably in the expectation that the German troops in the Ukraine will withdraw (by direct or tacit agreement with the German bourgeoisie) only at the moment when the British arrive, in order to prevent the otherwise inevitable victory of the Ukrainian workers and peasants and the creation by them of a Ukrainian workers’ and peasants’ government.

4. As a result of this state of affairs and of the cessation (at least approximate) of the equilibrium of the two warring groups of international imperialism, Soviet power has to strain its forces again and again to increase the army and strengthen its military might. This must be placed in the forefront.

5. This can and must be done only by revolutionary methods, by rallying the proletarian (and semi-proletarian) elements—the change in the army makes this fully possible.

All organisations of the proletariat and the poorest peasantry, all Soviet institutions and forces must be mobilised once again intensively for this purpose.

6. The realisation of the immense successes achieved by Soviet power in Russia in awakening sympathy and solidarity and support among the West-European working masses must strengthen our work so as to bring it to the victory of the international proletarian revolution.

+ Tasks in the Ukraine{216}