What has it established?  Its “decrees” are only verbal solutions without sense, skeletons of ideas, or simply a revolutionary phraseology containing nothing real (as for example the famous shibboleth, “neither peace nor war").

During the few months of its reign Bolshevism has succeeded in destroying many things; nearly everything that the effort of the Russian people had established.  Life, disorganized almost to its foundations, has become almost impossible in Russia.  The railroads do not function, or function only with great difficulty; the postal and telegraphic communications are interrupted in several places.  The zemstvos—­bases of the life of the country—­are suppressed (they are “bourgeois” institutions); the schools and hospitals, whose existence is impossible without the zemstvos, are closed.  The most complete chaos exists in the food-supply.  The Intellectuals, who, in Russia, had suffered so much from the Czarist tyranny and oppression, are declared “enemies of the people” and compelled to lead a clandestine existence; they are dying of hunger.  It is the Intellectuals and not the bourgeois (who are hiding) that suffer most from the Bolshevist regime.

The Soviets alone remain.  But the Soviets are not only revolutionary organs, they are “guardians of the Revolution,” but in no way legislative and administrative organs.

Bolshevism is an experiment tried on the Russian people.  The people are going to pay dearly for it.  At least let not this experiment be lost, on them, as well as on other peoples!  Let the Socialists of western Europe be not unduly elated by words or by far-fetched judgments.  Let them look the cruel reality in the face and examine facts to find out the truth.

A tyranny which is supported by bayonets is always repugnant, wherever it comes from, and under whatever name it may strut.  It can have nothing in common with Socialism, which is not only a doctrine of economic necessity, but also a doctrine of superior justice and truth.

“All the societies or individuals adhering to the Internationale will know what must be the basis of their conduct toward all men:  Truth, Justice, Morality, without Distinction of Color, Creed, or Nationality,” said the statutes that were drawn up by the prime founders of our Internationale.

The Executive Committee of the National Soviet of Peasant Delegates Placing themselves on the Grounds of the Defense of the Constituent Assembly, having had to examine, in its session of February 8, 1918, the violence committed by the Bolsheviki, and to pass in review the persecutions that this organization had to suffer from that party and from the government of the Commissaries of the People, decided to bring the violence committed by the Bolsheviki in the name of Socialism to the knowledge of the Socialists of western Europe and of the International Socialist Bureau through the citizen, E. Roubanovitch, representative of the Revolutionary Socialist party at the International Socialist Bureau and intrusted with International relations by the Executive Committee of the First Soviet of Peasants.