V. I. Lenin

Greetings to the Liberated Primorye Territory [1]

To the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Far
Eastern Republic, Chita [2]

On the fifth anniversary of the victorious October Revolution the Red
Army has taken another decisive step towards completely clearing the
territory of the R.S.F.S.R. and of its allied republics of foreign troops of
occupation. The capture of Vladivostok by the People’s Revolutionary
Army of the Far Eastern Republic unites with the masses of the working
people of Russia the Russian citizens who have borne the heavy yoke of
Japanese imperialism. I congratulate all the working people of Russia and
our val-iant Red Army on this new victory, and I request the Gov-ernment of
the Far Eastern Republic to convey to all the workers and peasants in the
liberated regions, and in Vladivostok, the greetings of the Council of
People’s Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin),

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R.

Moscow, October 26, 1922

Endnotes

[1] Lenin sent
his telegram of greetings to the liberated Primorye Territory on the
occasion of the liberation of Vladivostok on October 25, 1922, by troops of
the Far Eastern Republic, who acted jointly with guerillas in clearing out
the whiteguards and Japanese interventionists. In their reply, the working
people of Primorye Territory sent greetings to the Soviet Government
and thanked it for its assistance.

[2] The Far
Eastern Republic was established in April 1920. It embraced the Trans-Baikal
Area, Amur, Primorye and K.amchatka regions, and the northern part of the
Sakhalin Island. The for-mation of this "buffer" state as a
bourgeois-democratic republic that pursued an essentially Soviet policy
suited the interests of Soviet Russia, which sought to secure a prolonged
respite on the Eastern Front and avoid war with Japan.

On November 14, 1922, after the interventionists and the
white-guards were driven out of the Far East (with the exception of the
northern part of the Sakhalin Island), the People's Assembly of the Far
Eastern Republic passed a decission to unite with the R.S.F.S.R.