Addressing a conference of regimental commanders of the Petrogard garrison on the fourth day after the victory of the October armed uprising Lenin said: "It is not our fault that the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks have gone.
We asked everyone knows that the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks went because they were left in a minority.
the men of the Petrgrad garrison are aware of this.
they know that we wanted a coalition Soviet government.
we did not exclude anyone from the Soviets.
If they do not want to work with us, so much the worse for them."