>On April 20th the Red Guard marched against the government for the first time, and the government did not yield an inch. At the corner of Nevsky and the Mikhailovskaia some passers-by were killed. I saw it all from the restaurant where I was having lunch. The Bolsheviks scattered at top speed, the cab-drivers lashed their old hacks to a gallop. The scoundrels with faces like gallows-birds, marched off to the strains of The International. The public, furious with the Red Guards, were loudly accusing the government of weakness.
>I walked along to the Ministry of War, where I found the leader of the Cabinet, Colonel Samarin. "Well Colonel," I said, "so you aren't offering any resistance?"
>"The government cannot shed Russian blood," he answered "If blood is spilt, the government will lose its moral prestige in the eyes of the people for good and all!"
>The next day the Soviets published a signed order forbidding the troops to leave their barracks without permission. On May 5th a demonstration was made by the troops which were still loyal to the Government, but that apathetic and impotent power didn't know how to use them.
>To be absolutely truthful, I must admit that almost the entire population of the cabinet remained quite passive in the face of everything that happened. They did not seem to notice anything. Some posed as conspirators and spoke of the necessity for organizing resistance, but noone ever dreamt of doing it themselves.
>In the Army, thanks to the initiative of Generals Alexeiev and Denikin, there were already officer societies: there was one in Petersburg too, but it did more harm than good. It was scarcely established before splitting into two hostile camps by those who hoped to fish in troubled waters and declared their adherence to the February Revolution.
smh, blackpilled already and its only page 18.