Page "Red Army" Paragraph 8

At a joint meeting of Bolsheviks and Left Socialist-Revolutionaries held on 22 February 1918, Krylenko remarked: " We have no army.

The demoralized soldiers are flying panic-stricken as soon as they see a German helmet appear on the horizon, abandoning their artillery, convoys and all war material to the triumphantly advancing enemy.

The Red Guards units are brushed aside like flies.

We have no power to stay the enemy ; only an immediate signing of the peace treaty will save us from destruction.

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