The state border (№ 352543)

- Listening to you, Alexander Nikolaevich.
Mr. Ulyanov, I understand you. Moreover, I am ready to serve the revolution, if necessary. But the brutality... the Crowd takes revenge on us, it's scary. I was told that the Bolsheviks were the principal opponents of the death penalty.
- The cruelty. What do you think, will accept the counter-revolutionary officers with the victory of the revolution? The old generals resigned and thousands more, tens of thousands will not accept and will oppose Soviet power. We will punish these performances of death and revenge is not being. This is nonsense. No power without the death penalty, the only question is, against who exactly it applies to and benefit from these deaths. This weapon, and it must be directed against enemies. It was we have a purely theoretical conversation.
- I want to tell you quite sincerely, Vladimir. If you remember, after the highest rescript about to award me the rank of major-General, I went to introduce myself to the Emperor. He said, you serve on the border? I say: Yes, Your Majesty. He asks: how are you hunting? Many boars? Just for the day, from Finland fought was a gang of smugglers, killing many soldiers. Of course, I didn't think he was going to ask about it, but to say... the boar! When are the Requiem...