V. I.

Lenin

The Provisional Government is calling upon the “population” today to stay calm in face of “the
rumours that are being spread in the city and are agitating the
population”.

Doesn’t the Provisional Government think that one sentence in the
resolution passed by the Congress of Soviets is, and should he, a
thousand times more agitating than all “rumours"? That sentence
reads:

“ We know that concealed counter-revolutionaries want to take
advantage of your [Bolshevik] demonstration.”

This is “more than rumours”. How can they fail to agitate the population?

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