Know that a
traitorous blow threatens the revolutionary fatherland, the
Constituent Assembly, and even the work of the Soviets. Your duty
is to prepare yourselves for their defense.
The Central Executive Committee, nominated at the October
Congress, calls together for the 8th of January a Congress of
Soviets, destined to bungle the Constituent Assembly.
Comrades! The Second Congress of Soviets assembled at the end of
October, under conditions particularly unfavorable, at the time
that the Bolshevik party, won over by its leaders to a policy of
adventure, a plot unbecoming a class organization, executed at
Petrograd a _coup d'etat_ which gave it power; at a time when
certain groups with the same viewpoint disorganized even the
method of convocation of the Second Congress, thus openly aspiring
to falsify the results; at this same Congress the regular
representatives of the army were lacking (only two armies being
represented), and the Soviets of the provinces were very
insufficiently represented (only about 120 out of 900). Under
these conditions it is but natural that the Central Executive
Committee of the Soviets chosen at the first election would not
recognize the right of this Congress to decide the politics of the
Soviets.
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