Our freedom, our liberty, is in danger. Rumors have reached us that say certain wild, dangerous people are going from one remote village in our vast and long-suffering Homeland to another and burning the landowners' hay, burning the grain, killing the livestock, demolishing structures. And seeing them, our ignorant, uninformed peasants are joining the robbers to menace and plunder landowners' estates.

We, your sons and brothers who wear the soldier's gray overcoat, call upon you from our trenches: Stop! What are you doing? Do you want to leave our army without bread, meat, or fodder? Do you want the Germans to capture us with their bare hands right here as we starve? Do you want to wreck our Homeland and your own freedom? Do you want us to have Tsar Nicholas back with the old ways, the birch rods, the gallows, the penal detachments, the guards, the Ingush?

People from Ingushetia in the Caucasus. Soldiers from the Caucasus were sometimes formed into special regiments, especially the famous “Wild Divisions.” Many Russians feared and despised such soldiers because of their reputation, in combination with ethnic prejudice against them.

Instead of land and liberty, do you want poverty and misery worse even than before? If not, then don't lay a hand on anyone else's property, and maintain order. Wait calmly and patiently for the New Government to establish new laws in the state. Even this summer the Constituent Assembly, the new Duma, is going to be gathering in Petrograd. Select your most reliable people to go there, people who will stand up for you, and then this Constituent Assembly will look into all your complaints and satisfy all your needs.

And so sell your grain to the New Government, help it establish order in the rear. Then we will quickly drive our stubborn enemy out of our native land and return to you more quickly for a new and free happy life.