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 considered itself as a sort of Messiah whose mission is to save the world. It is obvious that history has now invested with this great mission the starving Russian people mutilated by three centuries of slavery and exhausted by the war.

In face of the danger of being crushed by the bandits of capitalism the Russian people say to the workers of the world and to all honest men and women: ''Follow us to a new life for the creation of which we toil, unsparing of ourselves, of any one or anything save that ideal. We toil on amidst privations and sufferings, ardently hoping to achieve success. We leave our acts to the impartial judgment of history. Join us in our fight against the old order, in our work for a new structure and organisation of society and for the freedom and beauty of life.''

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