His disciple Peter Verhovensky commented:
We are already terribly powerful…. Jurors who acquit criminals are completely ours. The district attorney who trembles in courts not to be considered liberal enough is ours. Administrators, men of letters, we are many, very many, and they don’t know they belong to us.
On the basis of such a program an organization with an impressive name was formed – the World Revolutionist League. Its constitution was signed by Netchaiev and Bakunin, Marx’s intimate collaborator. In the beginning the League consisted of only a handful of men.
The revolutionist Duke Peter Dolgorukov wrote on October 31, 1862:
In London I met Kelsiev (who belonged to the above organization), a narrow- minded but good man, terribly fanatical, with the face of a soft man. Kelsiev told me softly, with a benevolent look: “If we have to slaughter, why not slaughter, provided this is useful?” … All these London men speak continually about “burning down, slaughtering, cutting in pieces.” These words have never left their tongue since Bakunin came to England…
In 1869, in Geneva, Netchaiev wrote a proclamation in which, referring to the man who shot Emperor Alexander II, he advises:
We must consider what Karakazov did as prologue. Yes, this was a prologue. Let us see to it that the drama itself begins soon.
Another proclamation says,
Soon, soon the day comes when we will unfurl the great flag of the future, the Red flag, and we will attack with great noise the Imperial palace…
We will have one shout, “To the axes!” and then we will kill the party of the emperor. Do not pity…. Kill in pub is places if these base rascals dare to enter them, kill in houses, kill in villages.
Remember, those who will not side with us will be against us. Whoever is against us is our enemy. And we must destroy enemies by all means.
In 1872, a revolutionary society was formed under the simple name “The Organization,” which had a super-secret circle chillingly called “Hell.” Though its goals have continued to be pursued for well over a century by groups which continually change their names, its existence has been unknown to the outside world.
Soviet historians have dared to write about the activities of “Hell,” a forerunner of the Russian Communist Party, only as recently as 1965, ninety-three years after its formation.
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