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create hurdles to the Council’s activities; commissaries and other high rank clerks in the soviet government started to consider the Council a counter-revolutionary organization. That is when the Council’s members decided to convene the 3rd Regional Congress on April 10 in Gulyai Pole, in order to put together the future policy of the Council or dissolve it, if the Congress would find necessary to do so. And the Congress was then convened.

The counter-revolutionary did not come in haste, apart from the first who raised insurrection standards in Ukraine, the standards of the social revolution. They came to assist in coordinating the general struggle against all oppressors.

Representatives from several districts and governments as well as of several military units came to the Congress and everybody agreed that the Revolutionary Military Council of the Gulyai Pole Region was necessary; they even took part in the Executive Committee and assigned the latter to start a voluntary and egalitarian mobilization of the region. The Congress was astonished by comrade Dybenko’s telegram that declared the Congress as counter-revolutionary, when it was this region the first to raise the revolutionary flag. This is why the Congress voted for a formal protest against the telegram.

Such is the situation. You should open your eyes, comrade Dybenko. Consider it! Think about it! Do you, all by yourself, have the right to declare counter-revolutionary a population of one million workers that alone and with their hardened hands have broken the chains of slavery and now build their own life in their own way?

No! If you are truly revolutionary you must come and help them in their fight against the oppressors and in the construction of a new and free life!

Can there be laws, made by some people who are called revolutionary, that allow placing an entire mass of people – because the Executive Committee represents the whole mass of people –, which is more revolutionary than them, out of the law? Is it legal?

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