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We shot the Czar, his wife, his daughters,and his son;

bringing the reign of Romanovs to fit conclusion.

Old Bolsheviks who think to slow the Revolution

from rapid progress will, like them, face execution.

We do not hesitate to shoot down anyone.

We will not tolerate even imagined treason.
On counter-revolution we have open season.

To those who might consider the least opposition,

I say survival should be your foremost ambition;

your full compliance, in the Red, is our condition.

Shall I confide in you a bit of secrecy?

I do not tell it often---for, admittedly,

it gives some weaker comrades' stomachs heaves and hurls.
But, telling truth (and I can only speak for me),

I rather fancied shooting those four frightened girls.

Starward

[jlc]