The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
Red Army Guards Flu
ture of All Humanity,
Says Pravda
Especial to the Daily Worker,

MOSCOW, Feb. IS (By wireless.
No army in the world enjoys such
love, trust and respect as the Soviet
fighters enjoy among the workers,
peasants and toilers of all countries
Of the globe" declared Pravda,
newspaper of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, yesterday, on
the seventeenth anniversary of the
Red Army.
Our own peoples army, cemented
to its people by blood, stands guard
over the great and wonderful coun-
try of Socialism, stands by for the
order, To armsp at the motors, the
tanks, airplanes, at the locks Of
guns, at the torpedo tubes of sub
marines.
1T is guarding the powerful So
Wet Union her plants and factories,
her land, which has been trans
ferred forever to the collective
farms; it is guarding her towns and
villages, her people-the creators Of
wonderful, striking and well-to-
do life. 1t guards the Soviet rivers,
seas, mountains and valleys, the
dense forests and boundless steppes
the Soviet children and Soviet la
Dor. 1t guards the hopes and flu
ture of all humanity"
ToiIers' Own Armed Forces
Pointing out the historical per-
spectiye Of the Red Army, Pravda
declares:
THE oppressed and exploited
throughout the centuries have al
ways dreamed of their own armed
forces.
ITO arsmsl This ardent call al
ways resounded in the mountain
passes of the class struggle. But
the exploiters were masters of all
the arsenals. The toilers could Sc
cure arms only through shedding
their blood And they suffered nu-
merous defeats because they were
lacking the means of answering the
grape-shot of their enemies with
grape-shot.
Born of Revolution
1.-THE October Revolution" con-
tinues Pravda. created the armed
forces of toiling nation for the
first time in history The Red Army
was born in the fire of the great
revolutionary battles for Socialism
for the independence of the great
Soviet fatherland. 1t grew in
/ strength warning with the wild
hordes of the entire imperialist
world and annihilated the armies
of the white guard generals, drove
out the British, German, japanese,
Polish and other imperialists' troops
from the land of the Soviets.
Led, organized and educated by
the Communist Party, by Lenin and
Stain, the Red Army is always vic
torious. The Party gave it COM
manders, the Party reared its fight
ers and heroes, the Party drafted its
fighting plans and victories, the
Party equipped it with the most ad-
vanced technique.
Red Army Ready
THE enemy near the Soviet from
tier is wakeful. He is attempting
to concoct alliances against the
country of the Soviets, he is raging,
he is preparing for war, he is
stretching his hands towards the
Soviets. The Soviet Union is sacred
and inviolable. 1t is saturated wit;l
the blood of the best of its sons,
who in great and supreme fidelity
/ toward their class sacrificed their
lives for her sake in the civil war.
THE great Soviet army, almost a
million strong. stands on the from
tiers, ready to rush like an ava
lanche upon the enemies who might
dare to disturb the peace of the So
Wet country. We do not wish for
eign lands, but should the enemy
attack us, let him blame himself.
To defend its fatherland our glor-
ious army will sweep away every
hostile army. The Red Army, with
its Stain and Voroshilov, will I'M
furl its fighting banners in defense
of the fatherland and will inflict
such defeat on the enemy as the
history of the world has never yet
| known"