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 206 From the very first Lenin has advocated this policy, with the expressed belief that Bolshevist-aided revolutions would soon overthrow all existing governments and release him from his obligations.

As early as February, 1919, Tchitcherin, the Soviet Commissary for Foreign Affairs, sent to the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States a note in which he said:

At the meeting of the Russian Communist Party on March 15th, 1921, Kameneff used an identical argument (Moscow Wireless, March 18, 1921):