A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a NihilistLe Queux, William
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A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist
Le Queux, William
Nihilism -- Fiction; Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction
Until the new era dawns—as it certainly must ere long—the Great White
Terror will continue its deadly combat with the cruel and despotic
Autocracy; its Damoclean force becoming even stronger and more
irresistible, until it brings another disaster upon the House of the
Romanoffs that will startle the world. Then a time will follow like that
under Ivan the Terrible. When the day will come no man knows; but none
the less sooner or later—and perhaps the time is not far distant—the
people will shake their limbs, and Russia will tremble to her very
foundations. The people who vainly awaited liberation at the hands of
their rulers will then free themselves. They will demand an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth. The sins of the past will be visited on the
guilty with all the horrors to which the oppressed in time past have been
subjected by them. Then the Polish revolution will be mere child’s play
in comparison with the great drama on the day of vengeance, and that such
a day will surely come is inevitable.
The Russian people will judge who insulted them, who mistrusted them, who
enslaved them, who spilt their blood. They will act in the manner of the
French nation, and amid the ruins of wrecked palaces and the _débris_ of
a fallen dynasty, the condemned torturers will cry for mercy. The burning
scene at Moscow will be repeated on a larger scale, not for the purpose
of killing French soldiery, but of serving as a beacon fire to proclaim
to Russians the Day of Redemption.
UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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