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210 “The Revolution of 1905, which will set men free from brutal oppression, must commence in Russia. It is beginning.”

Why must Russia play the part of the chosen people? Because the new Revolution must before all repair the “Great Crime,” the great monopolisation of the soil for the profit of a few thousands of wealthy men and the slavery of millions of men—the cruellest of enslavements; and because no people was so conscious of this iniquity as the Russian people.