Summers to Lansing on a portion of Lenin's address to the Moscow Soviet
(on the struggle against capitalism)


File No. 861.00/1667
[Telegram]

Moscow, April 26, 1918
[Recieved April 28, 2:31 p.m.]


421.

    Following is translation essential portions Lenin's address April 24 before Moscow Soviet:

  We have two enemies, the enemy at home and the enemy abroad. The enemy abroad to the east and to the west awaits the moment when he may attack the Russian socialist revolution. We must not close our eyes to a painful fact; we have no army. We can not resist the power of international imperialism.

  We have unfurled the flag of war against capitalists in all countries.

  Our civil war is almost ended, the assasination of Kornilov is the last act of this struggle. Now a more painful period begins. The enemy at home and abroad assails us with his last reserves. Our aim at present moment is to retrench until the porletariat of the west comes to our aid. If that does not happen we shall perish.

  Another enemy a hundred times stronger is the small proprietor. To overturn the bourgeoisie was easy but this small proprietor is terrible fact. [Each] one is a Kornilov in germ.

  The condition of the country worn out by the world war is very grave. We may be crushed at any moment. Nothing but the dictatorship of the proletariat can save us.




Summers




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