Tsar Nicholas the Bloody, who has dispersed the First and Second Dumas, who has drowned Russia in blood, enslaved Poland and Finland, and is in alliance with out - and-out reactionaries conducting a policy of stifling the Jews and all "aliens”, the tsar whose loyal friends shot down the workers on the Lena and ruined the peasants to the point of starvation all over Russia - that tsar pretends to be the champion of Slav independence and freedom!"
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