WHAT LENIN SAID
POLICY TOWARDS FINNS
RIGHT TO FREEDOM
AGAINST ANNEXATION
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 6, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, December 5. The reported jamming of a Finnish broadcast from Lahti at the point when the announcer recalled the policy laid clown by Lenin for dealing with Finland causes little surprise here. That policy ran entirely counter to the present Soviet action. Writing, in the "Pravda" on May 1.5, 1917<» Lenin described the relation of Finland to Russia, stating that the Tsar and others were against the agreement with the Finnish Diet. They wanted to subjugate Finland to Russia. Class-conscious proletariats and the Russian Social Democrats, true to their programme; were for the freedom of Finland as well as of other non-sovereign nationalities. "Finland," he said, "was annexed by the Russian Tsars through a deal with Napoleon. As we are really against annexations, we must come out openly for Finland's freedom. After we have said it and practised it, then, and cmly then, will agreement with Finland Tiecome really a voluntary, free, and true agreement and not a deception. Comrades, workers, and peasants/ do not be carried away by the anhexationist ! policy of the Russian capitalists concerning Finland, Courland, and the Ukraine. Do not fear to recognise the right of these peoples, to independence." .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 11
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WHAT LENIN SAID
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 11
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