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 such Socialists as ourselves, who believed in the necessity of carrying on the war;  against Kerensky, against the Minimalists, against all those whom he accused of compromise with the bourgeoisie and of concessions to militarism and imperialism.

Scarcely had we crossed the Finnish frontier than we witnessed the beginning of his propaganda.

In the stations, full of soldiers in heavy khaki coats and their winter sheepskin caps, he improvised meetings; he spoke of Stockholm; he lauded the Revolution, proclaimed the duty of the International proletariat to put an end to the horrors of war at the earliest opportunity.

But this propaganda, which was stopped only by the signal for the train to start, was counteracted by another propaganda, not less active and not less prolix.

There were in the train more than three hundred Russian military doctors who had just been liberated after having been prisoners in Germany since the beginning of the war.

To the soldiers whom Trotsky was haranguing they told of the sufferings of