
Citizens ! The revolutionary proletarian movement is growing and national barriers are collapsing ! The proletarians of the different nationalities in Russia are uniting in a single international army , the individual streams of the proletarian movement are merging in one general revolutionary flood . The waves of this flood are rising higher and higher and dashing against the tsarist throne with increasing force – and the decrepit tsarist government is tottering . Neither prisons nor penal servi tude , nor gallows – nothing can stop the proletarian move ment : it is continuously growing ! And so , to bolster up its throne the tsarist government is inventing ” new ” methods . It is sowing enmity among the nationalities of Russia , it is inciting them against one another ; it is trying to break up the general proletarian movement into petty movements and to incite them against one another ; it is organizing pogroms against the Jews , Armenians , etc. And the purpose of all this is to separate the nationalities of Russia from one another by means of fratricidal war and , by enfeebling them , to vanquish them one by one without difficulty !
