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and things, changing all conditions of existence, that it has forced people to revise all their estimates of things, to think them over anew.
The Nevsky is deserted. But so is the world. And the world has split into „Whites“ and „Reds“, not in Russia alone, but everywhere. Comrades, who actually killed of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg? A few officers. They, with their own hands, killed Liebknecht and Luxemburg, And yet in Germany itself, under the heel of Wilhelm, who stifled all that was human in the officers as a class—even there there are „red“ officers.
Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, used to boast that no one could produce an imitation of a German lieutenant, that nowhere but in Germany was there such a lieutenant. And indeed it was quite a special breed; he was raised specially. Just as some particular breed of horses is bred in special studs, so in Germany under Bismarck and Wilhelm, there were, if one may so call them, human studs, for the training of a special breed of lieutenant with turned-up moustache. They looked down on the whole world with contempt, had no respect for anybody but their Kaiser and the Prussian hogs,
And yet even there we find dissension in the officer class. There are killers, and there are those who even now already support the workers, and look forward to the moment when they too will have a Red Army.
