25 December 1917. Rosa Luxemburg with Sophie Liebknecht

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Rosa Luxemburg with Sophie Liebknecht

Prison of Breslau (Wroclaw), Wiezienna street, Poland

I think about you every day when I get the news from Russia. It worries me to imagine how nervous you must become over every insane telegram. However, the greater part of this news, especially the news from the South, is about the Tatars.

This whole flood of telegrams only exaggerates the chaos and inflates every rumor. Until everything becomes clearer, there is no sense in worrying and hurtling oneself into the unknown. So far, it seems, the matter is bloodless, and in any case, all the rumors about “battles” are greatly exaggerated. All in all, this is only a struggle among parties that looks in the words of the journalists to be hellish madness.

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Winston Churchill

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George Buchanan

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