Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-31
B0LSHEvIK MIS-
RULE APPARENT
TO REDFICHTERS
Soldiers and Sailors Be-
ginning to Realize
ROttenneSS
People at Home Tell Them of
Tyranny of Communist Re-
gime-Cause of Recent Re-
volts in Kronstadt and Pet
rOgrad

| Terijoki, Finland, Mar. 80 (By The
Associated Press)-Througho Rus
STA soldiers and sailors for the first
time in years are receiving leaves of
abence or are being temporarily de-
modified and are learning the facts
surrounding the tyranny of the Com
munists from the people. The Kron-
stadt and Petrograd revolts were
| caused by this fact, and similar
movements now are spreading to ev-
cry troop and sailor center, when the
men return to them from leaves of alb
sence. Thus rehabilitation daily is
growing more dangerous for the Boil
sheViki.
These and other inside facts con-
shutting the latest developments in
Russia. were given The Associated
Press today by Stephan Maxmovitch
Petrichenko, a petty officer from the
Russian battleship Sebastopol who
led the revolutionists recently at
Kronstadt and who was interviewed
today in the TerijoM refugee camp.
! 1t was Petrichenko, and not Gen
cral koZlovski, the commander at
kronstadt who was the central figure
in the latest attempt by the Russian
workingmen to overthrow Communist
tyranny Koblovski was only tech
nical man in the affair.
For years" said Petrichenko, "the
happenings at home while we were on
the front or at sea were concealed by
the Bolsheviki censorship. When we
returned home our parents asked
why we fought for other oppressors.
That set us thinking"
! Petrichcnko described dramatic
| meetings on the quarter decks of the
| battleships Sebastopol and Petropav-
! loVsb. The meetings. on both vessels
simultaneously drew up resolutions
/ demanding freedom of peech and of
the press: freedom of individual
workers from the tyranny the Com
4 munists and calling or constituent
assembly. The resolutions spread to
other ships, to the kronstadt garri-
son and to the workers in Petrograd
and the revolt resulted.
I'VE were defeated" declared Petri-
! chenko, but the movement will pro-
coed because it comes from the peo-
Pile themselves"
I PetriChenko is only 90 years old He
had only two years of schooling and
vas plumber before joining the navy
nine years ago. He several times was
arrested by the Bolsheviki as a coun-
! cr-reVolutionary. but when he tried
! to join the White forces. he was told
/ that he was BolShevik.
There are three million like me in
( Russia" he said, mot reactionary
Whites and murderous Reds: and
! from these plain people will come the
( overthrow of the Bolsheviki"
/ Petrichenko demonstrated his
leadership as president of Kronstadt
when he brought the refugees to Fin
land in perfect order. He was among
the Last Of the Kozlovski adherents
TO retreat. His followers said that his
/ greatest fault was his reluctance to
XIII Communist agitators when he
! was president at Kronstadt.
! Petrichenko said today that he had
! received information that 500 work
/ men left behind in Kronstadt were
j massacred by the Bolsheviki because
they fired from windows while the
Red cavalry was entering the fort
! ress. He added that he was certain
/ that neither Kronstadt nor the two
/ battleships would ever be a menace
again as their guns and their working
parts were demolished when he left.