To all Workers of the Plough and the Hammer! : 
Revolutionary Insurgents of the Ukraine (Makhnovists)
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1920

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Author : Nestor Makhno

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To all workers of the plow and the hammer!


Brothers! A new and mortal danger is approaching all 
working people. All the dark forces that served the bloody Nicholas have united 
with the help of the Polish landlords, the French instructors and the traitors 
of the Petliurist movement in the Ukraine in order to establish an autocracy 
over us, to burden us with landlords, capitalists, Zemstvo leaders, 
policemen and other hangmen of the peasants and workers.
Comrades! The commissars and bosses of the 
Communist-Bolsheviks are good fighters only against the poor and oppressed. 
Their punitive detachments and Chekas can splendidly shoot peasants and workers 
and burn down villages and hamlets. But against the true enemies of the 
revolution, before the Denikinists and other gangs, they flee shamefully, like 
miserable cowards.
You, comrades, have not yet forgotten how last year 
the gold shoulder straps came close to entering Moscow and if it were not for 
the insurgents, the three-colored flag of the autocracy would long since have 
waved over Revolutionary Russia.
So also now, comrades! The Red Army, which is being 
sold out every step of the way by its own generals and cowardly commissars, is 
fleeing the front in panic and surrendering region after region to the Polish 
landlords. Zhitomir, Kiev and Zhmerinka have long been occupied by the Poles; 
the white guard front is approaching Poltava and Kherson. And, in the Crimea, 
the Denikinists have been waiting for the last three months for an opportune 
moment to once again occupy our own territory.
Brothers! Is it possible you will quietly await the 
approach of the whites and, crossing your arms, hand over yourselves, your wives 
and children, to be torn apart by the generals and landlords?
No, this must not happen.
All, as one, in arms and in the ranks of the 
insurgents.
Together with us, the Insurgent Makhnovists, rise 
against all tyrants. In every hamlet set up detachments and join with us. 
Together we are driving out the commissars and the Chekas and together with the 
comrade Red Army men we will build an iron battle front against Denikin, 
Petliura and the Polish landlords.
Comrades! Time does not wait; put your detachments 
together immediately.

For the cause!

Death and destruction to all tyrants and landlords!

Let us begin the last and final battle for a 
genuine, free soviet system where there will be neither landlords nor masters!

To arms, Brothers!

Cultural-Educational Section of the Revolutionary 
Insurgents of the Ukraine (Makhnovist)
May 1920


     From : NestorMakhno.info

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