By their confessions, the fourteen accused have killed Menshevism both at home and abroad, Advocate Braude, who was engaged to defend two of the prisoners, Teitelbaum, who is a Jew, and Volkov, who is a non-Jew, urged to-day, making his plea for all the fourteen accused. Braude emphasised the ideological side of the case, and pointed out that the accused had not looked for any personal gain or position. All of them had confessed, he said, that they had been drawn into their present unfortunate position by the false ideology and traditions of the Menshevist Party. They had tried to compromise, forgetting that revolution knows no middle course, he said.
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