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ment officials, and truth to say was in reality more nearly connected in his interests with the working population than with the land-owning class.
Our officer class of the present day is also divided into certain subclasses, certain layers, and we cannot dye them all with the same dye, we must not imagine them all as one compact homogeneous, black, reactionary mass. We do not, because it really is not so.
There are among the officers conspicuous representatives of both camps. Take for example the representative of the „White Guard“ the „White Finn“ Mannerheim a former Russian officer, who was educated here, grew up here. Such were Denikin, Koltchak, Yudenitch; in these men the fierce type of the officer landlord found its expression. They are the so-called „aurochses“, who defend their thousand dessiatins and refuse to recognise the Great Revolution. Yet, since the beginning of our liberating movement, the names of many officers who came from the people and who have served the people, shine forth with great brillancy; it is enough to mention these of Lieutenant Schmidt, or General Nicolayev, who perished at Yamburg, hung by the White Guards. With the rope around his neck, he cried: „Long live the Red Army! I declare that to my last breath I have served the workers and peasants!“.
