Marx-Engels | Lenin | Stalin | Home Page
V. I. Lenin
AID FOR THE WOUNDED OF THE RED ARMY!
A facsimile of the manuscript published in the magazine
Raneny Krasnoarmeyets No. 1, July 5, 1920Published according to the magazine text
From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1966 Vol. 31, p. 183.Translated from the Russian
Edited by Julius Katzer
Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (July 2000)
AID FOR THE WOUNDED OF THE RED ARMY! Thanks to the heroism of the factory workers and of all working people, and despite the extraordinary difficulties and the terribly slow rate of progress, we are succeeding in reviving and restoring the economic life, which was shattered by the tsar and the capitalists. Matters are on the upgrade if ever so slowly. However, all our difficulties and hardships are as nothing compared with what has fallen to the lot of the wounded Red Army men, who are spilling their own blood in defence of the workers' and peasants' government, against the Polish nobles and capitalists, who are being egged on by the capitalists of Great Britain, France and America.
Let each man in the rear be mindful of his duty and help the wounded Red Army men to the best of his ability.
N. Lenin
July 2, 1920