Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.

JANUARY 5–17 (18–30), 1912


GREETINGS TO THE GERMAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY

The following telegram was sent on behalf of the Conference to the Central Organ of the German Social-Democratic Party:

The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, as represented by the Russian Organising Commission and the Central Organ of the Party, sends its ardent greetings to the fraternal German Social-Democratic Party on the occasion of the brilliant victory over all the forces of the bourgeois world it won at the recent elections.[1]

Long live international Social-Democracy; long live the German Social-Democratic Party!

Written in January 1912
Published in February 1912 in a pamphlet All-Russian Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. Central Committee Publishing House, Paris
Published according to the pamphlet text

Notes

[1] The January 1912 German elections to the Reichstag resulted in a great victory for the Social-Democrats, 110 of their candidates being elected, receiving a total of 4,500,000 votes.

Vorwärts published the message of greetings sent by the R.S.D.L.P. in its issue No. 22 of January 27, 1912.