Written: 11 September, 1918.
First Published: 12 September, 1918 in Pravda No. 195; Published according to the manuscript text
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 28, 1965, page 92
Translated (and edited): Jim Riordan
Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters
Online Version: V.I.Lenin Internet Archive, 2002
Hearty greetings to the Red Army on its wonderful victory.
May it serve as a pledge that the alliance of workers and revolutionary peasants will finish off the bourgeoisie, break down all and every resistance by the exploiters and ensure the victory of socialism all over the world.
Long live the world workers' revolution!
Lenin