Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-09
Guerrillas in Modern Revolution
Yusosav General Gives Them More Than Subsidiary
Value i'm Debate With Moscow Point of View

liberation az The enSaare6 peoples ne~c PES
Be reduced 20 he direct tnsegSsntaor c. Ire
SoTies Army
Sees Mllitary Her~sy b. kr~snlin-
Gen. Pocotsch quotes ~tth apgrcTai
q l5-month Old report made ay ScTses Ma
Shal Gregory BQlgArln. IN xhaca ne latter
argued that the main snoEtoon.ns q Tire
German-an6 wesssrn-xeneEAls has newn
then preoccupAtson with military plans. 70
the exclusion Of economic and mora !Ae-
tors, Gen Popovsch indicates that, IN
his vsew. Tire conlnform sgsisgtxss are
committing the same military herexy-
On the other hand ne euetes very gensr-
ously from an s-yeaf-ead monograph
by Mao Tss-tunS. in which the Chinese
Communist leader dealt with The employ
niens OF entire armies and peoples in guer-
Tilla warfare,
No explanations tof this thesis are
needed" SAYS Gen. PopoTieh The sim
ilarity toetween the Chinese and YuxoslAv
views Is striking. both In the approach 10
the military problems and In then solution
II only shows that as far as the possibility O.
a successful struggle Is concerned one DOES
not have TO deal with the objective situation
IN China or YugoslAvia. or With the CUES
ton OF whether the experience Is valuable
because 1t VAS borrowed from China or
Yusoslavia. - Concretely. there is no reA-
son why our experience should not be
transferred 10 an occupied Europe
Denial and failure tof the Central Com
mittee Of the Russian Communist Party 10
understand the new contents. meaning and
nature Of partisan warfare Is not accidental
Gen. Popovteh writes, 1t Is reflection az
the failure TO evAIuae fully and
understand the new concrete broad. revolu
tionary possibilities OF the liberation struggle
OF the ensiaved peoples OF the entire world
The arrival OF the Soviet Army played a
decisive role in Hungary. Bulgaria and
Romania. II didn't in China In Greece.
the war OF liberation Is still on. In Yugo-
slayia. the peoples democratic authority vas
established before the arrival of the Soviet
Army. and 30 was a powerful peoples army,
barrier to Churchiirs Plans.
This Yugoslavia was the main barrier 10
execution of British War Premier winston
Churchills plan for the landing OF Anglo
American forces in the Balkans II cannot be
doubted that this political influence OF Yugo-
slavia facilitated the breaking away OF East
ern European countries from the imperiaiist
chain.
"A fact is q fact: No other country has
achieved this without the direct assistance
Of the Soviet Army. This underlines the
liberating role OF the Soviet Army II also
uIlutIlllcs the NtAkneSS OF the revolutionary
movement In all these countries"
Yugoslavias fight has shown. Gen Pop
ovich argues. that q country does not have
TO wait for the arrival OF the Soviet Army
TO be liberated But even when the interyen-
ton of the Soviet Army was direct and deei-
sive. 1T Is wrong TO deny the meaning OF
the internal forces upon which depended
the certainty and speed OF the postwar So
cialist revolution"
Gen. Popovich goes on: 1T is more than
likely that. say. In Hungary. Romania and
Bulgaria. without the Soviet Army's direct
intervention, there would have been no
peoples democracies. But what is the use
instead Of having helped the Soviet Army
during the war-of issuing now revolution
airy statements on its liberatins role7
1T Is clear that only those are interested
In doing IL who did not carry out their
duties as leaders OF Communist parties. or
who slept through World War II. III
everything Ia reduced TO the liberating role
OF the Soviet Army. It becomes OF secondary
Importance who did what to help the Soviet
Army in the struggle"