Patrol of the October Revolution, Petrograd, 1917.Public Domain.

War chronicle · Noema · Petrograd, Russia

Ka haere tonu te pāhorotanga o Rūhia


Kua tū ngā iwi o te tōputanga, ka tahuri ngā Rūhia mai i te riri nui o te ao ki te riri tarāwhare.

Kua raru nui te ao tōrangapū o Rūhia. Kei te pakanga te Kāwanatanga Whakakapi ki te pupuri i te mana whakahaere o te whenua. Kei te heke haere te wairua o te ope taua, kei te ngākau rua ki te pakanga. I te marama o Hūrae ka tino hinga te kōkiringa whakamutunga ki runga i a Tiamani, kāre te nuinga o ngā ope taua i tū ki te whawhai. Ka whakarērea noa te kauhanga riri e te tini mano o ngā hōia.

I te 7 o Noema, ka mau te taone o Petrograd (ko St Petersburg ināianei) i te tōputanga ā-iwi tūturu o Bolshevik. Ka turakina te Kāwanatanga Whakakapi. E arahina ana te iwi o Bolshevik e Vladimir Lenin. Ko tā rātou whāinga matua, kia puta a Rūhia i te pakanga nui o te ao.

I te marama o Tīhema, ka whiriwhirihia tētahi rangawaatea (tatau pounamu) ki ngā Mana o Waenga. Ka tīmata mai ngā kōrero mō tētahi tiriti. He mārō te tū o ngā Tiamana, he nui te whenua i murua i a Lenin kia puta mai ai te rongomau.

Heoi, ka mate atu tētahi riri, ka ara mai anō tētahi. Ka pakaru mai te riri tarāwhare ki Rūhia – ka nui tonu ngā tau e whakataumahatia ai tēnei iwi.