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 Rh It forbade the soldiers to give up their arms to the officers, even if they should demand it. It put the soldiers in their political activities under the authority of the Soviet, and freed them from all limitations and humiliations in their political, civil and private life; nevertheless, it expressly commanded that "in the ranks and in carrying out their military duties, the soldiers must observe the strictest military discipline." For the rest, it abolished the salute and the use of titles, and forbade the use of rude language and overbearing conduct on the part of the officers (e.g., the use of "thou" in a contemptuous sense).

The remnants of the "Black Hundred Press" and, following in their train, the majority of the foreign correspondents, have furiously attacked the revolutionary democracy for this Order No. 1, and tried to represent it as the origin of all Russia's misfortunes. They