As if in retaliation, the Red Ex Com on the same day broadcasts its subsequently famous “Order Number 1” to the armed forces of the nation, proclaiming that in all political matters they were under the authority of the Petrograd Soviet — or of the local soldiers’ committees that were beginning to spring up — and instructing the troops to obey only such orders of the Duma as were not in conflict with those of the Soviet. The order also abolished saluting and laid down the principle that weapons should be in the keeping of the soldiers’ committees instead of in that of the officers. Thus chaos
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