Little by little, the Soviet government succeeded, without detracting one iota from the formal sovereignty of the local organs of the "dictatorship of the proletariat and the poorest peasantry," leaving the letter "F" its place of honor in the title of the constitution, to reduce the sovereignty of provincial soviets to almost nothing, restoring bureaucratic centralization in all its pre-revolutionary rights. Of course, to this day, many "gubernatorial executive committees" continue to conduct their own state policy by "sabotaging" the decrees and circulars of the Moscow government that are unpleasant to them. But the same thing happened in the good old days: governors, and in some counties even police officers, loved to proclaim: "I am the king and god here!" The nominal autocrat of the Russian Empire had to put up with the alienation of a very significant share of his sovereignty in favor of local administrators. This unpleasant feature is inherent in every autocracy, every oligarchy, communist no less than noble or bourgeois. And it must be admitted that the government, which has managed to bring the prestige of the bureaucratic center almost to the height at which it stood under the old regime in an environment of appalling state devastation, leaves nothing to be desired in terms of its strength, firmness and determination.
But perhaps most significant of all is the success of the Bolsheviks in reuniting Latvians, Belarusians, Ukrainians and other so-called "non-historical" nationalities under the scepter of the Moscow government, as representatives of the sovereign Great Russian tribe. We illustrate this with just one example. Everyone remembers the storm of indignation that was aroused among the independent democrats by the draft treaty between the Entente and the Petliurists, according to which the latter were to pay for the military support of the Allies by providing the Ukrainian railways to France. And when, two weeks after this incident, the Moscow government agreed to provide financial assistance to the Ukrainian government only on the condition that the Ukrainian railways and banks "merge" with the Great Russian ones, as far as we know, there were no protests. The Moscow demand went completely unnoticed by the general public, did not cause any discussion in the press or at meetings, and was taken for granted by Soviet Ukraine. The Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and other national Soviet governments, while maintaining the entire decorum of state power, sending "notes" to foreign powers, and having "their own armies," are in fact no more independent than those marshals and generals whom Napoleon I made kings and dukes of conquered regions as a reward for their faithful service. And here the letter "F" symbolizes not so much the "F"-ederation, as the "F" - a leaflet covering the executive bodies of the unified state apparatus headed by the Moscow Council of People's Commissars.
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