Another lie

Another lie

A source: Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 4. - M.: OGIZ; State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1947, pp. 93–94.

Note 17: Ibid. S. 419.

In No. 97 of “Our Time”17 (evening edition) reported from the words of his own correspondent the text of a German radio telegram from Constantinople, saying that "the Bolsheviks, having received strong reinforcements from Turkestan and Astrakhan, went on the offensive, and, despite the heroic resistance of the Muslims, the Bolsheviks took the city of Baku."

I declare publicly that this provocative radiotelegram has nothing in common with reality.

From the very beginning of the revolution, Baku has recognized and still recognizes the power of the Soviets. There was no attack on Baku by the Bolsheviks and could not be. There was only an adventurous offensive by a handful of Tatar and Russian landowners and generals, which suffered a complete fiasco due to the decisively negative attitude towards this handful on the part of the Muslims and Russian workers and peasants. There was no struggle between the Bolsheviks and the Muslims and could not be. The power of the Baku Soviet represented and represents the power of the workers and peasants of all nationalities of Baku and its region, and, above all, the power of the Muslim people.

People's Commissar I. Stalin

"Pravda" No. 97,

May 19, 1918

NOTE

17 "Nashe Vremya" - an evening newspaper of the Socialist-Revolutionary trend; published in Moscow from December 1917 to July 1918. – 93