V. I. Lenin

Thenewspaper
Mysl {1} carries an interesting “proscription list” of the
Yaroslavl Administration. Dozens of per sons (56 in the town of Yaroslavl
and 17 in the town of Rybinsk) are marked off in it as “suspects”, and a
secret report requests the police department for “appropriate
instructions”. In this connection, Mysl says:

“Leteveryone pass judgement. He that hath ears to hear,
let him hear. He that bath reason to understand, let him understand. The
police department has now conceived a grandiose operation for the
simultaneous radical and “final liquidation” of a number of organisations
over the entire Russian land through a massive “seizure”, unprecedented
in scale, of persons suspected of adherence to the Socialist-Revolutionary
and Social-Democratic parties, and the peasant and the railway unions. For
that purpose, the department has demanded full lists of suspected persons
from the local authorities. These “proscription lists”, concentrated in
one place, by now contain almost ten thousand names of persons over whom
arrest hangs like the sword of Damocles.”

Andso, the government is hatching another plot. Military preparations
against the people, “measures” to dissolve the Duma, and lists containing
10,000 names for arrest! As in October-December, the government has made a
“dead set” at the revolution, utilising the relative freedom to lure out
and destroy thousands of more fighters for freedom.

Letone and all, therefore, be at their post. The government is
prepared—the revolutionary people must also be prepared.

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Notes:
{1}
Mysl (Thought)—a political and literary daily, the legal
organ of the S. R. Party, published in St. Petersburg from June 20 (July 3)
to July 6 (19), 1906, in place of Golos (Voice), which had been
dosed down. Fifteen issues were published.

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