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With the Soviet government being securely in place in Russia, we hereby ask all the nations of the world, and the United Kingdom and France in particular, to recognise the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic as the only legitimate government in Russia.

-Georgy Chicherin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR.

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Comrades! I speak to you from far-away Riga, which has after our latest offensive been secured as free, with the Red Army marching into Lithuania. Since the Soviet government started ruling, it has overseen a great series of victories by its people against the imperialist armies. But the time for celebration is still far away, as they are still trampling the lands of Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Bessarabia. Comrades in the occupied lands, as your liberation by the Red Army, which Field Marshal Von Hindenburg referred to as a 'disorganised rabble', is at hand! This nickname should not discourage you, for this man, who is the military dictator of Germany, is simply launching propaganda in the hopes that you will embrace him, his emperor, and his army as your liberators and saviours while painting the Red Army as savages and beasts. The truth, however, is very different. The Red army liberates the workers and peasants that the Germans and Austrians are trying to subject. In their conquest of a world empire, the German designs on Eastern Europe call for Ukraine to become the granary of Germany. Ukrainian comrades, do you wish modernisation and freedom, or being forced into serfdom? And this question I extend to my comrades in all occupied lands. Comrade Lenin and I both understand that the interests of many nations differ from that of the RSFSR, even if they live in it, and many would rather see an independent state. To this we say: We understand, we can work towards this and rearrange Russia's borders later. But not while German jackboots trample our lands, or on their terms.

Comrades of the Red Army! Your hard work and sacrifice has come to fruition in the last spring and summer, as breakthroughs have been achieved in Ukraine and the Baltic! The Germans and Austrians flee in the face of your might! You, not an army, but the Russian people under arms, taking the fight to your enemy, and not just your leaders'! And that, comrades, is what differs the Red Army of Workers and Peasants from the armies we fight. The German and Austrian armies fight the war of their rulers, to enforce their ambitions for power. They oppose the Red Army which is not the army of the Council of People's Commisars, but the army of the Russian people that oppose imperialism and serfdom! It is this difference that will see our victory and their defeat! Our allies in France and Britain stand by us completel in this effort. The fall of Paris is a blow to our effort, but our armies are still in a fighting condition, and the fight for Paris have shown me that the fighting spirit is still present. With Germany's economy under blockade their armies shall be strained further. Comrades, together with our allies on the other side of Europe we shall see to it that the terror of Europe shall be vanquished from this earth! 

-Leon Trotsky, People's Commisar for Defense of the RSFSR