And the Revolution will need the efforts of many to overcome
the disorganization left her as a heritage by these robbers and
executioners.
The working class did not need the war. The workers did not begin
it. It was started by the Czars and capitalists of all countries.
Each day of war is for the people only a day of unnecessary
suffering and misfortune. Having dethroned the Czar, the Russian
people have selected for their first problem the ending of the war
in the quickest possible manner.
The Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies has appealed to
all nations to end the butchery. We have appealed to the French
and the English, to the Germans and the Austrians.[18] Russia
wants an answer to this appeal. Remember, however, comrades and
soldiers, that our appeal will be of no value if the regiments of
Wilhelm overpower Revolutionary Russia before our brothers, the
workers and peasants of other countries, will be able to respond.
Our appeal will become "a scrap of paper" if the whole strength of
the revolutionary people does not stand behind it, if the triumph
of Wilhelm Hohenzollern will be established on the ruins of
Russian freedom.
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