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Were the Bolsheviki Conspirators? + 

The French newspaper Entente of Petrograd, on November 15th, published an article of which the following is a part: + 

“The Government of Kerensky discusses and hesitates. The Government of Lenin and Trotsky attacks and acts. + 

“This last is called a Government of Conspirators, but that is wrong. Government of usurpers, yes, like all revolutionary Governments which triumph over their adversaries. Conspirators⁠—no! + 

“No! They did not conspire. On the contrary, openly, audaciously, without mincing words, without dissimulating their intentions, they multiplied their agitation, intensified their propaganda in the factories, the barracks, at the Front, in the country, everywhere, even fixing in advance the date of their taking up arms, the date of their seizure of the power.⁠ ⁠… + 

“They⁠—conspirators? Never.⁠ ⁠…” + 