Through the Russian Revolution . of the first laws the Soviet made as it enteredinto power. As the ruling-class the workers were now in aposition to take vengeance on their former exploitersand executioners. When I saw them rise up andtake the government in their own hands, and at thesame time take in their grasp those who had lashedthem, jailed them and betrayed them, I feared asavage outburst of revenge. I knew that thousands of the workmen now inauthority had been sent with clanking chains acrossthe snov/5 of Siberia. I had seen them pallid andtottering from long years in those cofiins for
Through the Russian Revolution . of the first laws the Soviet made as it enteredinto power. As the ruling-class the workers were now in aposition to take vengeance on their former exploitersand executioners. When I saw them rise up andtake the government in their own hands, and at thesame time take in their grasp those who had lashedthem, jailed them and betrayed them, I feared asavage outburst of revenge. I knew that thousands of the workmen now inauthority had been sent with clanking chains acrossthe snov/5 of Siberia. I had seen them pallid andtottering from long years in those cofiins for theliving—the stone sacks of Schlusselburg. I hadseen the deep scars cut in their backs by tlie Cos-sacks nagaika and I recalled the words of Lincoln:If for every drop of blood drawn by the lashanother shall be drawn by the sword, the judgmentsof the Lord are pure and righteous altogether. But there was no dreadful blood-bath. On thecontrary, the idea of reprisals seemed to have nohold on the minds of the workers. On November.
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