Note.—All persons with special training must be listed in a special
list.
10. The right is reserved to retire from the service all commanders
on active service who are not elected by the soldiers to any post,
and who consequently are ranked as privates.
11. All other functions beside those pertaining to the command, with
the exception of posts in the economic departments, are filled by
appointment of the respective elected commanders.
12. Detailed instructions regarding the elections of the commanding
Staff will be published separately.
_President of the Council of People's Commissars._
VL. ULIANOV (LENIN).
_People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs,_
N. KRYLENKO.
_People's Commissar for Military Affairs,_
N. PODVOISKY.
_Secretary of the Council,_
N. GORBUNOV.
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_On the Abolition of Classes and Titles_
1. All classes and class divisions, all class privileges and
delimitations, all class organisations and institutions and all civil
ranks are abolished.
2. All classes of society (nobles, merchants, petty bourgeois,
etc.
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