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of very little account, he was kept under by the old officials, who were generally distrustful of the abilities of young men, while the Soviet government had placed him in full control of the fort; he could give fall play to his capacities. It was said that he was a great specialist, a learned artillerist, very fond of his work: one would think he had been given a sufficiently wide field of action; he was placed, like the majority of officiers, in comparatively tolerable material conditions; how could treason have been expected of him? Yet you know what that man did? He sold the key of our city! And to whom? To the Finnish bourgeoisie, which is sitting on a mound of corpses of Finnish workers, which about two years ago shot hundreds of Russian officers, not because they were Communists, but simply because they were Russians; the Finnish bourgeoisie, brutal, dull and narrow-minded, killed Russian officers for no other reason but that they were Russians.
Now after we were the first to recognize their independence, the Finns throw bombs into Cronstadt, fire on our frontier, mock their own people. And yet a Russian officer, entrusted with the key of that most important place, at a decisive moment presents it to that same Finnish bourgeoisie. Nekliudov sent a radio to Björkö, to the Finnish authorities there and partly to the English authorities and said to them: „Krasnaya Gorka is at your disposal. Come and take
