Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin: The interests of the ruling classes are by no means always identical with the national interests. Indeed, they are often divergent; and as capitalism decays, this divergence becomes ever wider and more profound. This is borne out by countless instances of direct betrayal by the ruling and exploiting classes of the interests of their country. It was also borne out by the intervention in our country, when White Guard bands fought hand in hand with foreign armies against the Soviet country. It is furthermore to a large extent borne out by the despicable and treacherous activities of the remnants of the vanquished classes in our country-the Rights, Trotskyites, bourgeois nationalists and the rest of the counter-revolutionary scum. They betrayed the interests of their own country. wordsmith.social/protestation/…