Beware of Spies!
Берегитесь шпионов!
Date: 1919
Source: PSS vol 38
Translated by: AI (Claude)

Death to Spies!

The offensive of the White Guards on Petrograd has clearly demonstrated that throughout the entire front-line zone, in every major city, the Whites have a broad organization of espionage, betrayal, bridge blowing, organization of uprisings in the rear, murder of Communists and prominent members of workers' organizations.

Everyone must be at their post.

Everywhere double vigilance, think through and carry out in the strictest manner a series of measures for tracking down spies and White conspirators and capturing them.

Railway workers and political workers in all without exception military units are especially obligated to double precautions.

All conscious workers and peasants must stand breast-forward in defense of Soviet power, must rise up in the struggle against spies and White Guard traitors. Let everyone be at a sentry post – in continuous, militarily organized connection with party committees, with the Cheka, with the most reliable and experienced comrades from soviet workers.

Chairman of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense

Pravda No. 116, May 31, 1919
Printed from the text of the newspaper Pravda