Dear Comrades!
I extend my warmest greetings in anticipation of your forthcoming publication. I deeply regret that ill health prevents me from contributing an article of my own. I trust that, thanks to your newspaper, the inclusion of the finest representatives of the working people of the East will be advanced more swiftly and on a broader scale. The fate of Western civilization as a whole now hinges to a tremendous degree on the integration of the working masses of the East into political life.
With best wishes and warm regards, Chairman of the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR, Lenin
Dictated over the telephone in December, no earlier than the 17th, 1921.
First published on April 22, 1957, in Pravda, No. 112.

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