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To the Mutinous Forces in Kazan
To the mutinous forces in Kazan fighting against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, we the deceived Czechoslovaks, to the deceived peasants, to the deceived Workers.
What are you fighting for?
The landlords, the capitalists, the old officers want to recover their power and their wealth. The French and Japanese stock-exchange speculators want to recover their profits. But what about you Czechoslovaks, you workers and peasants?
You have been deceived. You are cannon-fodder. You are shedding workers’ blood for the interests of the rich.
There is no hope of salvation for the rebel White Guards. Kazan is surrounded on all sides. Our forces, on land, sea and air, are incomparably greater than yours.
Your leaders, having seized the people’s gold, are hastening to quit Kazan. They feel that they are doomed.
Czechoslovak soldiers! Peasants and workers!
Do you want to die with them?
I declare to all:
The Soviet power is making war only on the rich, the aggressors, the imperialists.
To the working people we extend a fraternal hand. Everyone of you that comes over voluntarily to our side will receive from us full pardon and fraternal welcome.
Dozens of men from your ranks have already come over to us. None of them have suffered. They are all unharmed and at liberty.
In the name of the Council of People’s Commissars I give you a last warning.
Come over, all of you, to the side of the Soviet forces!
Sviyazhsk, August 26, 1918.
[The date is given at the end of the order as ‘August 26’, but appears in the list of contents as ‘August 27’.]