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passed (as I was later on able to verify), the few months of „diplomatic action“ of the representatives of the Entente, prior to the landing of allied troops at Archangel.
I was, right from the first hour, one of the most convinced partizans of intervention against the Germans and the bolsheviks.
Against the Germans, because the destruction of German Imperialism (the only obstacle to the re-establishment of peace and the advent of a regime of liberty and fraternty of the nations, based on the right to govern themselves),—was and remained, more than ever, my only preoccupation, my only immediate ideal, or more exactly that which embodied ail my dreams and hopes for the future.
Against the bolsheviks, because the bolsheviks,—I still remained persuaded of it,—were German agents and usurpers of power, who had „killed the Russian revolution“ andprecipitaded Russia into an abyss. Still understanding nothing,—not havîng studied the development, doctrine and aims of Bolshevism at its source, I saw nothing but the abuses, the excesses on the streets which were being committed around it, in spite of it, often directly against it, and I perceived only its work of destruction which appeared to me necessarily anarchic, since I did not notice that it aimed at the mechanism oî capitalist state, and that parallel with this, there was being sketched out the work of constructing a new State, the Proletariat State, the Commune, or in other words, this transitory form of State which is no longer State in the real meaning of the word, and which Lenin has defined. so clearly in his
