journalist John Reed, best know for his eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the
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Intervew here by Sergei M. Eisentien
المختصر للموضوع - الحقيقة أن البرچوازية مستعدة تماما للتسليم بأن الحياة فى ظل حكمها شاقة وقاسية وظالمة - ومن مصلحتها من بعض النواحى الاعتراف بهذا والتسليم به - فقط شريطة التسليم كذلك بأنه لا بديل هناك." زيارة الى مزرعة الحيوانات هنــا
excerpt from chapter VII, "The Revolutionary Front
We sallied out into the town. Just at the door of the station stood two soldiers with rifles and bayonets fixed. They were surrounded by about a hundred business men, government officials and students, who attacked them with passionate argument and epithet. The soldiers were uncomfortable and hurt, like children unjustly scolded. A tall young man with a supercilious expression, dressed in the uniform of a student, was leading the attack. "You realise, I presume," he said insolently, "that by taking up arms against your brothers you are making yourselves the tools of murderers and traitors
"Now brother,"answered the soldier earnestly, "you don't understand. There are two classes, don't you see, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. We
"Oh, I know that silly talk!" broke in the student rudely. "a bunch of ignorant peasants like you hear somebody bawling a few catch-words. You don't understand what they mean. You just echo them like a lot of parrots." The crowd laughed. "I'm a Marxian student. and I tell you that this isn't Socialism you are fighting for. It's just plain pro-German anarchy
"Oh, yes, I know," answered the soldier, with sweat dripping from his brow. "You are an educated man, that is easy to see, and I am only a simple man. But it seems to me
"I suppose," interrupted the other contemptuously, "that you believe Lenin is a real friend of the proletariat?"
"Yes, I do," answered the soldier, suffering
"Well, my friend, do you know that Lenin was sent through Germany in a closed car? Do you know that Lenin took money from the Germans
"Well, I don't know much about that," answered the soldier stubbornly, "but it seems to me that what he says is what I want to hear, and all the simple men like me. Now there are two classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
"You are a fool! Why, my friend, I spent two years in Schlusselburg for revolutionary activity, when you were still shooting down revolutionists and singing 'God Save the Tsar!' My name is Vasili Georgevitch Panyin. Didn't you ever hear of me
"I'm sorry to say I never did," answered the soldier with humility. "But then, I am not an educated man. You are probably a great hero
"I am," said the student with conviction. "and I am opposed to the Bolsheviki, who are destroying our Russia, our free Revolution. Now how do you account for that
The soldier scratched his head. "I can't account for it at all," he said, grimacing with the pain of his intellectual processes. "To me it seems perfectly simple - but then, I'm not well educated. It seems like there are only two classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie
"There you go again with your silly formula!" cried the student
"and whoever isn't on one side is on the other..."
Eugène Pottier died on November 6, 1887
شاعر وعامل الثورة الاشتراكية من فرنسا ثم أصبح صاحب الانشودة الروسية بعد الثورة
see the lyrics to the internationale in several language
Pictured: postage stamp from the USSR
Russian artist Valeri Pimenov, issued April 30, 1966 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Pottier’s birth
During the Commune he wrote the poem L’Internationale which became the anthem of the International Workingmen’s Association. The song boldly upholds proletarian internationalism. It became the national anthem of the Soviet Union after the revolution, and also was also the anthem of the Communist International. It is sung by millions of workers and oppressed people around the globe.
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