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25th-The First Day.
When I sum up.
The life I've lived
I rummage through the days-
Which was the most splendid?-
And I remember
one and the same-
The twenty-fifth,
The first day.
BREAD
BREAD
BREAD
DOWN WITH THE ACCURSED WAR
FREEDOM LOAN 1917
OUR MOTHERLAND DEMANDS NO SACRIFICE,
BUT THAT WE DO OUR DUTY.
ALL POWER TO THE
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
OCTOBER 1917
ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS!
ATTENTION EVERYONE
POWER TO THE SOVIETS,
LAND TO THE PEASANTS
PEACE TO THE PEOPLES
BREAD TO THE HUNGRY
What is soviet power?
What is the essence of this new power,
which most countries do not
or cannot understand?
Its essence, which attracts workers
of all countries more and more, is that
in the past the country was run,
in one way or another,
by the rich or by capitalists.
But now for the first time
it is run by those very classes,
in their masses,
that capitalism formerly oppressed.
For the first time in the world, here in Russia,
the government is formed in such a way that
only workers and labouring peasants.
- excluding the exploiters-
make up our mass organisations,
the Soviets,
and to those Soviets is
given all state power.
The End