The tyranny that presided at these elections was such
that the Bolsheviki themselves pay no attention to the results,
and declare that the Soviets that are opposed to themselves are
bourgeoisie and capitalists. We, representing the peasant workers,
must declare in the name of our constituents: if anything can save
Russia, it can only be the re-establishment of the organs of
local autonomous administration, chosen by equal, direct, and
secret universal suffrage and the resumption, without delay, of
the work of the Constituent Assembly.
The Constituent Assembly alone can express the exact will of the
working-people, for the system of election which governs it
includes every measure of precaution against violence, corruption,
and other abuses, and assures the election of deputies chosen by
the majority; now, in the country, the majority is composed of the
working class.
Millions of peasants delegated us to defend the Constituante, but
this was dissolved as soon as it began to work for the good of the
people. The work of the Constituante was interrupted at the time
that it was discussing the law concerning land, when a new
agricultural regime was being elaborated for the country.
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