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 Rh In the Pravda (November 30th, 1920), Lenin defended the policy of concessions with these expressions:

It must be remembered that these Extraordinary Commissions are the official Soviet bodies for enforcing the "red terror."

In his closing speech at the March (1921) Congress of the Russian Communist Party Lenin exposed all the main elements of Bolshevist policy. His internal policy, as there developed, has been discussed at the end of Chapter VII. It is closely linked with the external policy. Once more—after the adoption of his "new" proposals by the Congress—as in his opening speech, he based everything on the coming world revolution: "But when we look on our party as the hearth of world revolution, and observe the campaign now being conducted