Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-11
BolShevik Principles Disappear
and Old Officers, Now
Comrades" Enforce Rigid
Discipline.
WORKING CLASSES SEE
CHAMPION IN ARMY
Military Salute Restored and
Drill of Men Has Snap and
Spirit OF Well Trained Men
of Regular Army.
BY Robert Minor.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co,
Especial cable Dispatch to World and
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Especial cable Dispatch to World and
albuquerque Journal,)
Berlin, Feb. 10 (va Copenhagen
THAT is the only army in Europe
immune against revolution" | heard
a bystander remark as great columns
OF Russian Bolshevik soldiers poured
into Minsk singing The Information
ale"
Dense masses of men, horses and
artillery responded like elockwork to
the commands of smartly dressed
young officers, This was not the red
guard. The red guard is no more This
was part of the so-called red army,
which is a decidedly different thing.
II looks to me as though there is
more of an army about 1t than there
is anything red, but 1t is called red
because that is the popular color.
This is the army that is biting its
way through to the Baltic sea and the
Black sea. 1t has just entered Kieff,
thus adding the breadbox of Russia
to Lanin's slender larder.
At Minsk the working classes rose
to meet the invader with open arms.
Before the Bolshevik army reached
Vima | saw what looked like the
whole population crowding to organ
ize workman's committee to well
come it, The German soldiers helped.
Why these Russian people do not
fcresee and resent conscription into
this army | don't understand. They
thought they were welcoming the
original Bolshevism. They have not
yet discovered that il Bolshevism
means the peasants taking the land
and the workmen taking the factories
Russia is now the one place where
there is no Bolshevism. That is one
reason why Lenin cannot care to talk
in Bolsheyik phraseology.
AS | came through the no mans
land between the Russian outposts
and Germany, it appeared as though
the whole population except the ba-
rons were tinder awaiting the Bolshe-
vik match. But the Leninism that this
new army is advancing is of a new
and hitherto unheralded type The
Rolshevik leaders have slylv forced
transformation which has been
about completed since the German
revolution and has given a greater air
of permanency to Lenin's state.
Surprising Changes Have Come.
The BolsheVism of discipline has
features that should make those who
died for the october revolution and
put Lenin into power turn over in
their graves. Besides the return of
the Mensheviks to the government and
some of the bourgeoisie to run the
government state industries, there is
the most rigid army discipline. largely
under old officers, and more than
that, conscription.
When what Lenin calls the con-
s'ructive period began, switch from
the red guard to regular army be-
came necessary. In the old palmy
days the red guard could disrupt but
not build the state. 1t consisted of
armed workmen and mutinied SOL
diers. Then 81 slip CT paper from any
organization was almost as
good as BolsEevik pass. The SOL
diers considered their orders as mere
advice. The dissatisfied minority
could secede and fight its own cam
paigns slDW
The surprising unity now is due
only to a common love for the land
and the factories and "a common hat-
red of the officers. Such an army
Trotzky found on his hands when he
became war minister He has since
broken its will. The Brest peace made
some Of the soldiers break off and
ky used the supposed necessity of
keeping the peace with Germany to
coerce the soldiers at the front to
submit to the central authority.
The interior of Russia was swarm
ng with free willed troops and Mos
,ow had forty anarchist clubs with
connections in certain regiments when
Trotzky wanted Mierbach to come to
Moscow. Only the Lettish sharp
hooters-Lenin's guards consented
o disarm then. The tales ABOUT Chi
lese and Japanese mercenaries are
,reatly exaggerated Certainly they
lever terrorized the population of
MOSCOW or Petrograd.
The disarming Of the free willed
egiments was q dangerous game.
rrotzky sent many conscripted regi-
nents against them. who got disarmed
Once, when Trotzky or
Tered the commanders of dare
levil regiment to come and see him,
hey came in an armored train and
pointed their cannon on Trotzky's
ar during the parley. But slowly, by
'ajoling and judicious generalship,
Trotzky got most of the men with
he guns under his power. Others he
,eeps on far fronts.
The Bolsheviki recently were en-
at having to announce that
he city of Pavlograd had been
aptured by an army OF seven thou
and under the Anarchist Commander
This situation is being
emedied. as the old time anarchist
commanders are being dislodged and
prescribed as outlaws.
The picturesque figures of earlier
lays are fast disappearing. A fact
YIN bolical of the whole chanpa is the
ailors who disbanded the constitu-
lonal assembly, TO rthe Bolsheviki are
ow largely fugitive from the new
'olshevik law and order
Another striking Change.
The ealehration of officers, dave ",