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Order by the People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (August 1918)
Soldiers of the Fifth Army, sailors of the Volga Flotilla! We have received joyful news. The soldiers of the Soviet Second Army have drawn close to Kazan from the north-east.[1] The Czecho-White-Guards of Kazan tried to give battle, but the Soviet forces beat them back, went over to the attack, captured two armoured cars and a machine-gun, knocked out two guns, forced the enemy to flee, and occupied the villages of Kindery and Koshchakovo. Thus, the heroic forces of the Second Army are now within twelve versts of Kazan.
It is now your turn, soldiers of the Fifth Army. You must move up to meet the Second Army, and, between you, crush the Kazan counter-revolution in a vice of steel.
Soldiers of the Fifth Army! Sailors of the Volga Flotilla!
The taking of Kazan means the liberation of the workers and peasants of Kazan.
The taking of Kazan means the beginning of the death-agony for the bourgeois swine on the Volga, in the Urals and in Siberia.
The taking of Kazan means a merciless reckoning for the enemies of the revolution.
The taking of Kazan means, for you, well-deserved rest and reward for all the brave and firm warriors of the revolution.
The enemy akeady senses that his doom has come. Get ready! The moment for the decisive onslaught is here. At the first order from your commander, Comrade Slavin[2] you will go forward as one man and deal the death blow to the weakened enemy.
Commanders! Commissars! Soldiers! Sailors! Everyone to his post!