Зачем вы пришли в Мурманск

vbulahtin — 01.08.2017 Между 28 июня и 3 июля.
Ленин просматривает и подписывает воззвание Совета Народных Комиссаров к английским солдатам "Why have you come to Mourmansk?" ("Зачем вы пришли в Мурманск?").



Why have you come to Mourmansk? You have been told in England that the demand for men on the Western front is greater than ever. You know that in England men of 45 and over are being called to colours because of the urgent need in France. Yet you are brought here, right in the Arctic Sea, a thousand miles from the battle front.
For what purpose? Your government tells us that it has no hostile intentions towards us. That it does not desire to occupy our territory. That it will not interfere with our internal affairs. That you have been sent here only for the purpose of defending our Mourman railway against the Finns and the Germans. Comrade it is not true!
When anybody offers to put himself to considerable trouble and expense on your behalf, unasked, you get a little suspicious of his motives. We have not asked your government to help us to defend our country. We know that their intentions are quite other than those they express to us.
The Mourman railway is in no danger either from the Germans or Finns. If you look at a map you will see that the railway and roads from the West of Finnland end hundreds of miles from the Mourman railway. If the Finns want to approach our border they must traverse hundreds of miles of marshy forest land, and you know how difficult it is for an army to do that.
Neither can the Germans threaten the railway.
If the Germans want to attack the Mourman railway they must first take Petrograd, and march through our country hundreds of miles, from Petrograd to Petrozavodsk. We are no longer at war with Germany. The Germans cannot advance on Petrograd without first declaring war on us again. There is no likelihood of this happening. Except this, that if you come South, the Germans may use this as a pretext to advance further into our country.
Therefore you are not required to defend us. On the contrary your presence here increases our danger. Why then have you been brought here? We will tell you.
You have been brought here to occupy our country in interest of Allied capitalists.
You have been brought here to overthrow our revolution and bring back the reign of Tzarism!!!
You cannot believe this. You say that the British government would, never do such a thing. Let the facts speak for themselves.
The English capitalist newspapers Times, Morning Post, Daily Telegraph are writing every day about erecting a strong resolute government in Russia. Do these papers represent the views of democracy, or do they represent the views of the financiers, capitalists, and profiteers or England. These papers also constantly refer to the wealth of timber contained in out northern territory, which they say would be sufficient to pay for the loans which the financiers, capitalists and profiteers leant to a corrupt and tyrannical Tzarism. Capitalists, and financiers are not the friends of English workers, nor Russian workers, nor the workers of any country. Who controls the government of England to-day? They workers or the financial oligarchy? The financial oligarchy. They are ordering and directing your landing in Mourmansk. You are beeing used in the interest of the profiteer who are profiting out of the lives and labours of the working people.
Your government is interfering in our internal affairs. It has established its own control in the district you occupy. It has cut off our telegraphic communications with outside. It is attempting to seduce our citizens into fighting against us. At Kem your government shot four members of our local Soviet.
Your government denies that it did so, but we have positive proof that it did.
The Czecho-Slovaks!
You know that on the Volga, right in the heart of our country, the Czecho-Slovaks are openly striving to crush our Revolution. They said they wanted to fight the Germans, but they have remained here and are fighting us. They say they are fighting for liberty, but they are fighting to bring back the Tzarist regime. They are extending into Siberia, wherever they go they suppress our Soviets (Councils of workers Delegates), hang our members, and put Tzarist officers in its place. These Czecho-Slovaks are gathering around themselves the corrupt and reactionary officers of the Tzarist regime. It is the same crowd that betrayed Kitchener, that sold guns and munitions made in British factories to the Germans, that disorganised our army, and who where just about to sell Russia to the Germans, when we made our Revolution.
The one object of the Czecho-Slovaks, and this crowd, is to crush our Revolution and bring back Tzarism. They have officially declared that to be their object. And this has the unconcealed, nay outspoken support of the Allied governments.
The Allied governments and the Allied press are applauding the deeds of the Czecho-Slovaks. The French consulate made a speech in which he congratulated them on the task they had undertaken. They are financed by the Allied Military Mission. Their operations are directed by French officers.
Your landing in Mourmansk is part of the scheme, to co-operate with the Czecho-Slovaks.
You will be fighting, not against, enemies but against working people like yourself.
For the first time in history the working people have got control of their country. The workers of all countries are striving to achieve this object. We in Russia have succeeded, we have thrown off the rule of the Tzar, of landlords, and of capitalists. But we have still tremendous difficulties to overcome. We cannot build a new society in a day. We desire to be left alone.
We ask you, are you going to help crush us? To help to give Russia back to the landlords, the capitalists and Tzar?
You in your Trade Unions have been fighting capitalists, you know what it is.
Comrades!
Englishmen!
You who pride yourselves on your love of liberty!
Comrades! Descendants of the great chartists! You who have always expressed sympathy with the Russian revolution. Are you going to assist in crushing the first effort of working people to free themselves from their sweaters and exploiters?
Remember this! If the Russian revolution is crushed, then the power of the capitalists will be enormously strengthened in every country, and fight for economic freedom will be put back a hundred years.
N. Lenin, Pres Council Peoples Commissaties.
G. Tchitcherine, Peoples Commissary for Forign Affairs.

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