crowsandcats
28th January 2006, 06:12
The Workers and Peasants Government has decreed that Kronstadt and the rebelling ships must immediately submit to the authority of the Soviet Republic. I therefore order all who have revolted against the socialist fatherland to lay down their arms at once. Recalcitrants should be disarmed and turned over to the Soviet authorities. The commissars and other members of the government who have been arrested must be liberated at once. Only those who surrender unconditionally can expect mercy from the Soviet Republic. I am simultaneously giving orders to prepare for the suppression of the rebellion and the subjugation of the sailors by armed force. All responsibility for the harm that may be suffered by the peaceful population will rest entirely on the heads of the White Guard mutineers. This warning is final.
Trotsky, Kamenev, Ultimatum to Kronstadt
We have only one answer to all that: All power to the soviets! Take your hands off them your hands that are red with the blood of the martyrs of freedom who fought the White Guards, the landowners and the bourgeoisie!
Kronstadt Izvestia #6
Trotsky, Kamenev, Ultimatum to Kronstadt
We have only one answer to all that: All power to the soviets! Take your hands off them your hands that are red with the blood of the martyrs of freedom who fought the White Guards, the landowners and the bourgeoisie!
Kronstadt Izvestia #6