On this day 108 years ago, on November 8, 1917 (September 24, 1917 lunar calendar), the Land Decree of the Soviet Union was passed. On November 8, 1917, the Land Decree of the Soviet Union was passed. The day after the victory of the October armed uprising in Russia, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets adopted the Land Decree drafted by Lenin. The decree stipulated: The land of the landlord class shall be confiscated immediately and without compensation, the private right of land shall be abolished forever, and the land of the landlord and all the royal family, monasteries and churches, together with their farm animals, agricultural implements, houses and all appendages, shall be handed over to the Land Commission. All land shall be the property of the whole people. The Decree satisfied the peasants' urgent desire for land, stipulated that the land of ordinary peasants and ordinary Cossacks would not be confiscated, and that the land would be distributed equally to the laborers according to the labor quota or consumption quota. The Land Decree was enthusiastically supported by the broad masses of peasants, thus playing a positive role in consolidating the new Soviet power.