Council of People’s Commissars, Resolution for the Proclamation of the Ukrainian Republic an Independent Federative Soviet Republic. April 3, 1918
Taking note of the declaration of the Plenipotentiary Embassy of the People’s Secretariat of the Ukraine and the resolution of the Second All-Ukraine Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’ Deputies proclaiming the Ukrainian People’s Republic an independent Federative Soviet Republic, the Council of People’s Commissars extends warm fraternal greetings to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government, the People’s Secretariat and the Central Executive Committee of Soviets of workers’, Peasants’, and Soldiers’ Deputies of the Ukraine.
Compelled by the difficulties, which were exhaustively characterized in the resolution of the Extraordinary Congress of Soviets in Moscow, to enter into an agreement in keeping with the peace treaty with the Central Powers and the Kiev Rada, the Soviet Government of Russia expresses its enthusiastic solidarity for the heroic struggle being waged by the working and exploited people of the Ukraine, who now constitute one of the vanguard detachments of the world social revolution.
The Council of People’s Commissars expresses its unshakable confidence that the time is not far off when the revolutionary masses of the Ukraine, acting hand in hand with the proletariat and peasantry of Russia and supported by the revolutionary socialist proletariat the world over, will triumph in the struggle against imperialist and capitalist oppression, for the complete emancipation of the working class and for Socialism.
Source: Decrees of the Soviet Government (Moscow: Institute of Marxism-Leninism, 1957), Vol. II, p. 51.