Those already there
decided to meet daily at the Tavrichesky Palace in order to count
all the delegates as they arrived, and on an appointed day to
publicly announce the day and hour of the beginning of the
activities of the Constituent Assembly.
When the delegates finished their session and adjourned, the old
guards had been dismissed for their submissive attitude toward the
delegates and replaced by armed civilian followers of Lenine and
Trotzky. The latter issued an order to disband the delegates, but
there were none to be disbanded.
The following day the government of the Bolsheviki dishonestly and
basely slandered the people's representatives in their official
announcement which appeared in Pravda. That lying newspaper wrote
that the representatives of the people had forced their way into
the palace, accompanied by Junkers and the White Guards of the
bourgeoisie, that the representatives wanted to take advantage of
their small numbers and had begun the work of the Constituent
Assembly. Every one knows that this is slanderous as regards the
representatives of the people. Such lies and slanders were
resorted to by the old regime.
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