The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-31
BaSHEWK| ARE
 THREATENED BY
 FORMER FORCES
DemobiIKed Soldiers and Sail ors Now Learning Inside Facts in Regard to
 Soviet Regime
Ry Associnted press

TerijokL Finland, March 3O-Through- out Russia, soldiers and sailors for the first time in years are receiving leaves of absence or are being temporarily de- mobilized and are learning from the peo- pie the facts regarding the tyranny of the communists. The Kronstadt and Petrograd results were caused by this fact and similar movements now are spreading to every troop and sailor cen~ ter, when the men return to them from leaves of absence. Thus demobilizaton -daily is growing more dangerous for the bolshevik
 These and other inside facts consti- tuting the latest developments in Russia, were given the Associated Press today by stephan Maxmovitch Petrichenllo, a plain petty officer from the Russian bat tleship Sevastopol, who led the revolu- tionists recently at Kronstadt and who Fare interviewed today in the Terjol5i refugee camp.
 It was Petrichenko, and not General Kozlovski the commander at Kronstadt who was the central figure in the latest attempt by the (, Russian workmen to overthrow communist tyranny. Kozlov- ski was only technical man in the af fair.
 For years" said Petrichenko. the happenings at home while we were on the front or at sea were concealed by the bolshevik censorship. When we re- turned home our parents asked why we fought for their oppressors. That set ns thirking."
 Petrichenko described dramatic meet ngs on the quarterdecks of the battle ships Sevastopol and Petropavlovsky at which resolutions were adopted demand rg freedom of speech and of the press freedom of individual workers. from the tyranny of the communists and calling for a constituent assembly. The resolu- tions spread to other ships to the Kroli- stadt garrison and to the workers in Petrograd and the revolt resulted.
 ''We were defeated,' declared Petrich- enko, but the movement will proceed, because it comes from the people them selves"
 Petrichenko is 2s years old. He had had only two years of schooling and was a plumber before being appointed to the navy nine years ago. He was arrested by the bolshevik several times as a counter revolutionary, but when he tried to join the white forces he was told that he was a bolshevS.
 '"There are 900 like me in Russia he said, neither reactionary whites nor
  people will come the overthrow of the bolshevik'
 Petrichenlo is plain sailor of the uniformed type He demonstrated his leadership as president of Kronstadt when he succeeded in bringing out the refugees to Finland in perfect order. He was among the last of the KozlovsS ad- herents to retreat His followers say his greatest fault was his reluctance to kill communist agitators when he was pres ident at Kronstadt.
 He said today he had received infor- nation that 800 workmen left behind in Kronstadt were massacred by the bol- shevik, because they fired from windows while the red cavalry was entering the fortress He added that he was certain that neither Kronstadt nor the battle ships would~ever be a menace again. as their guns and their working parts were thoroughly demolished when he left