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[Use] rifles, revolvers, bombs, knives, knuckle-dusters, sticks, rags soaked in kerosene for starting fires... barbed wire, nails (against cavalry)… or acids to be poured on the police... The killing of spies, policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations... [must start] at a moment’s notice.
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As quoted in Tasks of Revolutionary Army Contingents, Collected Works, Vol. 9, pages. 420-24
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As quoted in Lessons of the Moscow Uprising, Collected Works, Vol. 11, page 174

 

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