Revolution In Danger by Serge Victor

Author:Serge, Victor [Serge, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608460847
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

The law of the sword

Here, today, Lev Davidovich Trotsky is the soul of the resistance. If, a few miles from here, the attack waves are being reformed and methodically launched into action, if trainloads of meat and ammunition, if all the forces of this poor exhausted country are being strained, organized and used systematically in the interests of victory, it is because they are channeled by his intelligence and directed by his will. It is a hard job! Siberian front, Ukrainian front, Polish and Latvian front, Petrograd front, Karelian front, Archangel front. The front of a civil war in the interior. A cruel job for the man who must think of everything and who must, as a revolutionary, act ruthlessly. This evening I read an order by Trotsky, laying down that the families of officers and Red soldiers who have gone over to the enemy must be immediately arrested and treated as hostages. The names follow. Today they have arrested Marfa Andreevna and her daughter Vera, wife and daughter of X, a traitor who has gone over to the enemy.

Kill or be killed: the Commune also, the Commune which writes on its banners such elevated ideas, knows this old law of the sword.

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