The delegates to the Congress approved the Decree on Peace, noting its tremendous internationalist importance. Speaking for the social Democrats of Poland and Lithuania, one of their leaders, Felix Dzerzhinsky, said; "We know that the only force that can bring freedom to the whole world is the proletariat which is staunchly fighting for socialism." A spokesman for the Rovno Soviet (in the Ukraine), Yakov Bazarny, said: "The Soviet I represent has instructed me to work for a cease-fire on all the fronts of war so that a just and democratic peace could be achieved. All soldiers, both those who are in trenches and those in the rear, all soldiers not only in Russia but in all other belligerent countries, will vote for this proposal, just as I shall vote for it.