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Title: In Warsaw Author: Nanitcha Date: May 1905 Language: en Topics: letter, Poland, repression, Russian revolution Source: Retrieved on 10th September 2021 from https://forgottenanarchism.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/in-warsaw-two-letters-to-lanarchie-by-nanitcha/ Notes: Published in l’anarchie.
[published in l’anarchie n°4, May 4^(th) 1905]
With songs, only songs, with red flags for all guns, the people, in
Russia, has yet again gone to their deaths.
And the cosaks, without risk, were able to beat them left and right,
this powerless crowd.
They were having a stroll, over 5000 of them, and women and children
were with them. They left the Vitzkovsky square, were they had gathered;
they went through the streets, protected, they thought, by their red
flag and their wisdom.
And the uhlans… and the cosaks came. In the Marchalskovskaia street,
police murderers started to charge with great blows from their nagaikas.
I don’t know… they say there are over 50 dead and as many wounded… We
will never know the truth, as always here…. Everyone takes home their
dead and cry…
A few officers, they say, were hurt by a bomb. Is it true? These brutes
have such tough skin…
60.000 soldiers, children of the people, were waiting, arms in hands,
for their brothers of servitude. What to tell them, what to shout at
them? What inconsequence, what madness on both sides! To walk without
weapons towards guns! To use guns on an unarmed crowd!
Here, like in every country, will unfortunate men carry weapons much
longer to protect the fortunate and kill their own kin?
How long will poor men who have strength in numbers still have the
ridiculous magnanimity not to use every means to kill the riche men?
Nanitcha
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[published in l’anarchie n°5 Thursday May 11^(th) 1905]
I told you all yesterday that people had gone empty handed, without
weapons, towards the soldiers. that there had been many dead and
wounded, more than 50 of each. I was well below the truth; there has
been over 200 dead and 300 wounded.
The workers and the others who went on a stroll like with popes, were
following an order by doing this silly action. And this order, how
surprising, was given by the Committee of the Socialist Workers’ Party.
On the day before the celebration, they had published proclamations
throughout the city. They said that people should be on a completely
general strike for one day. But also, they wrote: that all who attacked
private property would be killed.
The committee wanted it to be a peaceful demonstration, a procession; it
was that, a death procession for many people.
Since people don’t have weapons at home, they couldn’t take them, since
they had to respect individual property, and consequently the places
where there were guns… and then they let themselves be slaughtered.
I don’t have news from your country, but Rosalef told me that the same
had happened, in a town where they make pottery in the middle of France
[Limoges]… and that the socialists had said the same thing as here.
They are all the same in every country. they do not want to destroy the
cause of social evil, the economic injustice. They think or pretend to
think that, once they replace the picture of the tsar by the picture of
the republic, all will be over.
I feel deeply within myself, as do a few others, that it is not so and
that we must do better.
Nanitcha.