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Host: Claire Lenin: Brian Analyzer/Professor: Jenny Red Guard, Worker: Ryan

C: Welcome to Russia Radio podcast (Music) To review last time’s session, we talked about the dark forces destroying the throne and the defeat of Russian armies in the Eastern Front. The Russian Armies are still losing and have many casualties. The dark forces aroused nationalism and got rid of the long hated Rasputin. The government officials were changed around very frequently due to Alexandria and Rasputin. They became corrupted, so when Rasputin died, everyone was in glee. I hate to break the good news of Rasputin’s death, but today, we will talk about the life of the workers in Russia. Here is Professor Jenny to analyze what happened to the workers in Russia. J: Hello, this is professor Jenny. This year, many people were fired from their work places, making it a perfect condition for a revolution. The fired rate is currently increasing rapidly, showing the incompetence of the Tsar. Just in four days, 250,000 workers were fired. This means that amount of people held a grudge towards the Tsar. They were very angry that he did not govern the country well and just cared about his own benefits. Their minimum wages weren’t guaranteed and went on a strike for better wages. Because they could not settle the dispute, they got fired. In addition to the bad feelings towards the Tsar, there was a shortage of food, so the fired workers were even angrier. C: Thank you for your analysis, professor Jenny. Now we have a worker that was fired from one of the steel factories in Petrograd. Welcome Mr. Hong. R: (angry tone) Hello, I used to work for the Putilov steel factory. On Wednesday 7th of March this year, I was out on the streets, protesting with 20,000 other workers, because the company did not pay us. However, we ended up being fired. Nowhere to go, nothing to eat, no money at all. I was the pure image of a beggar. C: How did you overcome the difficulties of being fired? R: The fired workers held meetings on the subject of factories’ low wages and how communism will benefit us. And on March 15th, we finally were informed that the Tsar gave up and we were left without a leader. We all celebrated and embraced each other. C: How do you see this situation, professor? J: So many workers were fired during March. The Tsar is gone. The citizens of Russia were left fired. The whole country was at a very horrible situation. Lower agricultural products and continuous famine was tiring out the country. Russia was also an unindustrialized country. This meant, there had to be a new form of government. People wanted a new form of government rather than absolute monarchy. A new government was formed: the provisional government and the Petrograd soviet. The provisional government was the official government that was chosen, but they were going to work for only a short time and leave. The unofficial government was the Petrograd soviet. C: Thank you Professor. Now, Mr. Lenin has joined us and I have a several questions for him. Hello Mr. Lenin. B: Hello, I am very honored to be here. C: I heard that you were in exile in Switzerland. How were you able to successfully get to Russia? B: Well, it was very hard getting to Russia since Germany and Austria were in the way. But I was determined to get to Russia to set up a right government. I didn’t think that the Provisional Government was going to be an efficient government. I also got help from the Germans. They were happy to get me back home since they thought I was going to cause a revolution, thus ending the war between Russia and Germany. C: Can you tell us what you did after returning to Russia? B: Well I basically emphasized the idea of giving all power to the soviets. I also promoted communism in Russia. I wanted to start a second revolution against the Provisional Government. I had to go to Finland in exile again, because Kerensky arrested the Bolsheviks. It seemed like Kerensky was in power, but General Kornilov continued my ideas and finally got rid of the Provisional Government. Then the Bolsheviks gained power again. J: The April Theses proposed by Lenin was significant since, it united the Bolsheviks and gave them courage to have another revolution and overthrow the Provisional Government. It also influenced General Kornilov and finally succeeded in getting rid of Kerensky. C: Thank you all for your valuable time. I hope you enjoyed the interview with Mr. Lenin, Professor Jenny and Mr. Hong. Bye see you next time1239017551