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 On such conditions was the truce concluded. A book has lately been issued in which you can read the text of the treaty. This document is signed on the side of our Party by Comrade Smedovich, then President of the Moscow Soviet, an old revolutionist, grown white under our banner; on the other by the representatives of the cadets and the then existing „Committee of Regeneration“. The Moscow workers did not take vengeance on the cadets who had fought against us, but let them go free after returning them their arms.

These two facts suffice for future history and anyone not infected with „White Guard“ poison must say: At (he beginning of the October Revolution the Soviet Government did not use repressions, even against active enemies belonging to the officer class, The Soviet Government not only did not indulge in revenge; but what is far more important, it said: There are in Russia many hundreds of thousands of officers; they must be given a chance not alone to live, but to work in the liberated country,

And you will remember that, from the first moment of the formation of a „Red Army“, our Government addressed the officers in frank and friendly terms, saying to them: There is room and an honourable position for anyone who is willing to support the Worker and Peasant regime, anyone who comprehends that the greatest of revolutions has just taken place,