With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or…

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

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Quoted in “Djemal Pasha In Moscow” - New York Times - June 17, 1920

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