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 152 due to the support they have obtained from certain elements of labor outside of Russia. For in addition to the European revolutionary parties and factions already referred to other more or less neutral labor bodies have undoubtedly given them very valuable moral and defensive support.

All the successes of Soviet policy, to whatever extraneous causes they may be due, are attributed by the Bolshevists to the merit of their foreign propaganda and the invincibility of their international movement. This may be seen from a speech delivered by Lenin at a convention of the Communist Party in Moscow (Krasnaya Gazetta, November 23, 1920):

At the Communist Congress earlier in the year Lenin had said (see Soviet Russia, August 23, 1920):

We not only won over to our side the workers of all countries, but also succeeded in winning the bourgeoisie