NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96 Page 72 · 72 of 272
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96
English Translation
70.) to achieve revolutionary goals driven or absolutely ununderstood by the opposing side, usually have to wreak on power and violence - and so one can observe that almost every real revolution is going through a period of revolutionary terrorism and almost inevitably also a war adventure. And when in the critical hour of the overthrow, in which the moral, ideal and real political forces of the revolutionary movement and their principles are exhausted, by the struggle with the opposing reaction, the terrorism or the attack or even the defense war are exhausted and the revolutionary leaders are not capable of the revolutionary momentum by the real, properly evaluated conditions of the state and the people, which make this social change durable, moderate and adapt it, then begins the new counter-revolutionary reaction, which has its basis in the opposite ideal currents, in the opposing classes, parties and other conservative social forces, which meanwhile always worked underground and prepared the reconquest of their old positions. This sociological law is a normal occurrence of any major political and social revolution. The fall of the Roman Empire, durah brought about the earistic revolution, the medieval religious revolutions and wars, the French revolution of 1789, the revolution of 1848 in Europe, the Revolution of the French Commune of the year l87l and finally the great Russian revolution of the years l9i?