(Enthusiastic ovation.) Comrades, allow me to begin with those events about which you read yesterday and today in the pages of the newspapers. These are events in Hungary.

You know that until the end of March, "Kerenskchina" dominated in Hungary, and only at the end of March did the representatives of Kerenskchina depart, having understood that they could not maintain their position, while the social-conciliators sent their representatives to the prison where at that time Comrade Bela Kun was held, who had once acted in the ranks of our Red Army. They entered into negotiations with him, and Comrade Bela Kun went directly from prison into the government.

But recently news has been received that something improper began to occur within the socialist party in Hungary.

Further, Comrade Lenin speaks of how Romanian troops entered Budapest. But one should not pay particular attention to this.

It was the same with us, he says, on various fronts. But we had sufficient forces in the rear to fortify ourselves in such a way as to respond afterwards in a manner worthy of Kolchak, or as we responded on the Petrograd front. You know, our troops took Yamburg.

Comrade Lenin then speaks of the political experience which we have undergone during this time. Of course, the Hungarians do not possess such experience.

But we shall not allow ourselves to lose heart, because we know where the temporary triumph of Kolchakism and Denikinism leads. Let Romanian Kolchakism now dance upon the corpses of Hungarian workers. But we know that this triumph will not last long. True, only the iron force of the workers can extricate us from this difficult war, a force which gives assistance to every toiler and brings punishment to every speculator.

Then Comrade Lenin speaks of the actions of the conciliators, Mensheviks, and Socialist-Revolutionaries in Siberia, who now accuse the Soviet government of incorrect tactics, but were themselves unable to provide an example of tactics. Essentially, everything that happened in Siberia, all those promises made by the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, brought only suffering to both peasants and workers. But from the moment when the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the workers of France, England, and other countries are beginning more and more to understand the situation.

This is why the recent events in Hungary, difficult as they are, resemble those events which occurred in the camp of Denikin and Kolchak. These events will open the eyes of hundreds of thousands of new workers and point out to them that capital is extending its hand in order to obtain through bills of exchange what it has lost.

Further, Comrade Lenin speaks of the conspiracies which the Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries, and capitalists create in order to regain power. In creating conspiracies, the conspirators persuade the Soviet government to renounce terror.

But no, we shall not renounce terror because we know that this leads to the temporary victory of Kolchaks and Denikins! In this war, capital has killed itself. And this beast, now dying, roars at the workers in its death agony. But it will not be able to hold back its death agony—it will die! (Stormy applause.)

"Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee" No. 173 and "Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet" No. 177, August 7, 1919

Printed from the text of the newspaper "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee," collated with the text of the newspaper "Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet"