The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-10-14
Trotzky Tells How Great Soviet
Military Force Of 100000
Men Was Organized.
VEIL OF SECRECY IS RAISED
First Created as Several Armies, Each
Supported by Small War Council
Which Welded the Power of
Life and Death.

Paris. The curtain of secrecy be-
mind which the Russian Reds organ.
lzed the great soviet army of five
million men which enabled the mill
.ary directors of communism to beat
off or defeat all exterior and inte-
ror enemies during the past three
years, except drought and famine, is
lifted by Trotzky, according to the
Paris organ of Communism, "L'Hu-
MANTLE" which newspaper prints an
Interview with the military director
Tor Russia.
Trotzky gives credit for organiza.
lion to the old officers of the czarist
regime who turned reds. The soviet
army was created as several armies
and each supported small war coun-
ell, which welded the power Of life
Or death. The defeat Of the "White"
lrmy in the yolga region in 1918 af-
sorded sufficient enthusiasm to build
NE greater armies. Trotzky says:
"The army was instituted In prn-
ciple by decree signed January 10,
1918, by Lenin and his war and naval
commssaries, Dybenko and Podovis
KY. | was then negotiating the Brest
Litovsk peace treaty with Germany as
minister of foreign affairs. and 1t was
In March that | began my duties.
There was nothing left of the oil
army then; men had gone home. tn
materials lay scattered everywhere
abandoned where the trains happene
10 stop. The local soviets, barely Of
ganized, telegraphed me we have tie
cannon We have an av
alton park. . {. Ten soldiers. :.
Five sailors. !. > Everything was
muddle.
"My bureau was at Smolny. Poop
came from all corners Of the countr
Give us shoes. Don't you need
colonelT they asked. 1t was exa
" like the description made by L
sagaray Of the war ministry und
the French commune. 1t was not ea
to establish order ! had no COM
tence and thought first of accept
the aid Of foreign missions who hoI
to bring us back into the Europe
VIII. ENtDluuiis, ioNSNSis u NVihi
of the party, Bontch-Brouevit
brought his brother, czarist gene
to me. asked him to construc
general staff after putting him un
the watch of two communists.
filed his office perfectly.
Raises Cries Of Treason.
with hls help we began TO cl
up the situation But do you see
effect? A czarist general? People
gan TO cry treason and refuse to Q
me. The central committee, TO
na.ely understood me and aided
In order to establish discipline we
fiicted rigorous punishments.
"Al sorts of men offered themse
to me: Brigands and part briga
One man, who came with little tr
had his pocket full of gold and wa
es. He was shot. There were
spies and secret agents. Army
giene had to be revolutionized.
Everywhere interesting prob
came to light. When n colony
been established. local federal
stinct mixed with IT, with the r,
that we would have an army of
town of Tver or Of Vladimir.
general disgust of miltarism e.
where hindered all cooperation.
"Finaly in May the essential
of the apparatus was put on Its
seven regions had been constr,
with their governmental subdlvis
their cnntons and volosts
II did not dare to begin with
pusory military service; volur
service sufiiced. We then had a
100000 men. mostly former sole
and members Of the Jeunesses
munists. The cho-Sl0vakian
fair. however, came to our aid.
sYcu remember that advent