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Three years ago, on the 7th of November (25th October), 1917, the workers and Soldiers of Petrograd, guided by the party of the Bolsheviki, overthrew the bourgeois government of Kerensky, and proclaimed the government of the Soviets. At Petrograd the victory of the proletariat was gained easily, almost without any bloodshed. Detachments of revolutionary soldiers, of the Red Labour Guard, and of the Red sailors of the Baltic Fleet, occupied the most important points of Petrograd, besieged the Winter Palace, where the Provisional Government was in hiding, and with the support of the revolutionary cruiser, "Aurora," took the palace. The ministers were arrested and sent to the fortress of Peter and Paul. The second All Russian Congress of Soviets, which took place in Petrograd, the majority of which were Bolsheviki, proclaimed itself the government in place of the arrested government of Kerensky.