Your fighting power serves the cause of peace. The Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies is able to continue its
revolutionary work with all its might, to develop its struggle for
peace, only by depending on you, knowing that you will not allow
the military destruction of Russia.
Comrades--soldiers, the workers and peasants, not only of Russia,
but of the whole world, look to you with confidence and hope.
Soldiers of the Revolution, you will prove worthy of this faith,
for you know that your military tasks serve the cause of peace.
In the name of the happiness and freedom of Revolutionary Russia,
in the name of the coming brotherhood of nations, you will fulfil
your military duties with unconquerable strength.
Again and again Tseretelli was interrupted with cheers as he read this
Appeal to the Army. He was cheered, too, when he explained that the Soviet
had decided to support the reconstructed Provisional Government and called
upon the soldiers to do likewise. There was a storm of applause when he
said: "We well realize the necessity of having a strong power in Russia;
however, the strength of this power must rely upon its progressive and
revolutionary policy.
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