LENIN ON THE PRESENT SITUATION

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 475, 21 April 1920, Page 1

LENIN ON THE PRESENT SITUATION

In accordance with the decisions of t;-,o last All-Russian. Soviet Congress the Central Executive Committee now meets in regular session as a legislative body not less than once in two months. At the first meeting under the new regulations, held at the Kremlin recently with Kalinin in the chair, Lenin made a report on the international situation on the policy of the Council of People's Commissaries, and on the work of the Standing Committee of the C.E.C. He signalised first of all the decision of the Allies to raise the blockade, in consequence of the brilliant victories of the Red Army, as the entry of a new era in the history of the Soviet. Republic. The peace just, concluded with Esthonia, a bourgeois State under the pressure of capitalism from all sides, points to the same conclusion. The Allies have fallen back upon Poland; the Soviet Government has sent peace proposals to the government of that 'country, which will be supplemented by v manifesto to the Polish workers. "We have against us the whole imperialist world: we hay* for us the interests of the majority of the peoples of the earth, and .we shall see which will triumph,"