179. TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO A. A. JOFFE

Written on October 23, 1918 · First published in Pravda No. 231 and Izvestia No. 233, October 25, 1918. Printed from the original. · page 371

Russian Ambassador Joffe
Berlin

Immediately transmit our very warmest greetings to Karl Liebknecht. The liberation from prison of the representative of the revolutionary workers of Germany is the portent of a new era, the era of victorious socialism, which is now opening up both for Germany and for the whole world.

On behalf of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks),

Lenin^[1]

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[1]The names of Sverdlov and Stalin are also appended, in Lenin’s handwriting.—Ed.