it may sound incredible, especially to swiss comrades, but it is nevertheless true that in russia, also, not only bloody tsarism, not only the capitalists, but also a section of the so-called or ex-socialists say that russia is fighting a war of defence, that russia is only fighting against german invasion. the whole world knows, however, that for decades tsarism has been oppressing more than a hundred million people belonging to other nationalities in russia; that for decades russia has been pursuing a predatory policy towards china, persia, armenia and galicia. neither russia, nor germany, nor any other great power has the right to claim that it is waging a war of defence; all the great powers are waging an imperialist, capitalist war, a predatory war, a war for the oppression of small and foreign nations, a war for the sake of the profits of the capitalists, who are coining golden profits amounting to billions out of the appalling sufferings of the masses, out of the blood of the proletariat.
Norway