Brother against Brother

Our attempts to prevent the elections for the Worker and Soldier Councils have escalated the situation beyond even the most pessimistic estimation. Rather than surrendering, the mutineers have formed provisional Councils, elected field commanders and set up defenses in the streets. It is clear that they aim to make a fight out of this. The rifts in the army now run through every unit and often even between members of the same family. The nation stands poised at the edge of a civil war.