When I look for the grandest day of my life
Rummaging in all I've gone through and seen,
I name without doubt or internal strife -
October 25th, 1917
"Bread, bread, bread"
Down with the damned war!
"War bonds for freedom. 1917."
"The motherland demands sacrifices from us, and the fulfilling of our debt."
"All Power to the Soviets!"
"To all, to all, to all"
"Power to the soviets, land to the peasants"
"Peace to the people, bread to the hungry"
"What is Soviet power?"
"What is the essence of this new power,"
"Which people in most countries still will not, or cannot, understand?"
"The nature of this power,"
"Which is attracting larger and larger numbers of workers in every country, is the following:"
"In the past, the country was, in one way or another,"
"governed by the rich, or by the capitalists"
"But now, for the first time, the country is being governed by the classes,"
"And moreover, by the masses of those classes, which capitalism formerly oppressed."
"In this country, in Russia, for the first time in world history,"
"the government of the country is so organised"
"that only the workers and the working peasants,"
"to the exclusion of the exploiters,"
"constitute those mass organisations known as Soviets,"
"and these Soviets wield all state power."