The Bolshevik Commissariat for Foreign Affairs began its activities with the publication of secret treaties. Despite the fact that on November 22, on December 5, the adviser to the French embassy in Petrograd handed over for publication the text of the decision taken at a meeting of the ambassadors of the Entente countries: if the Soviet government publishes secret documents, then it will make it impossible for any relations of the allied ambassadors with him, the very next day the first batch of secret materials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was published in Soviet newspapers. The allied powers have made strong protests in this regard.