Dear Comrade!

The coming revolution in Germany is the most important world event of our day. The victory of the revolution in Germany will have a more profound significance for the proletariat of Europe and America than the victory of the Russian revolution six years ago. The victory of the German proletariat will undoubtedly shift the center of the world revolution from Moscow to Berlin. Die Rote Fahne can congratulate itself on a serious achievement, for it has proved to be a reliable beacon illuminating the German proletariat's path to victory and helping it once again to become the leader of the proletariat of Europe. With all my heart I wish Die Rote Fahne new decisive successes in the coming battles for the power of the proletariat, for the integrity and independence of the emerging workers' Germany.

I. Stalin.

Politbiuro TsK RKP(b) -- VKP(b) i Komintern. 1919-1943. Dokumenty. Pp. 169-170.

RGASPI F. 558. Op. 11. D. 139. L. 18.

NOTE

The editor-in-chief of the KPD newspaper Die Rote Fahne, A. Thalheimer, sent Stalin a request on September 13, 1923, to write a short piece for the newspaper in connection with the paper's "Recruitment Week" campaign. The reply was published in Die Rote Fahne on October 10.