File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎565r] (777/1080)

tk* I*n«heTik hordi ahrieked at the tops of their voices that the So
viet Government was plundering the peasant^, that the Communists had
established their intention to destroy the peasants as a class.
He were certainly alive to the fact that the requisitions were
an onerous burden for the peasants but at the time of the Civil War
we had no other recourse, no other saJwation, and therefore carried
out the system with a heavy hand, heedless of the cries of the Menshe
vik fraternity and of the undoubtedly oppressive situation in rural
areas.
in time the Civil War died down.
I’he possibility of peace operations and reconstruction loomed
large and the Soviet Government has found it practicable to change its
supply arrangiaents, substituting therefor the tax, or tribute in
kind.
It would seem that the Mensheviks ought to be satisfied.
Phe Soviet Government promulgated a measure which at one time or
other the Mensheviks themselves had strenuously advocated. Never the-
less that was to make no difference. Messieurs the "dress-coated” So-
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cialists held to their views that every measure imposed hy the Social
ists and the Communist party is, as it were,... .text obliterated
Thus squeak the Menshevik rats among the peasantry though in
that there is nothing to be surpirsed at.
Whiteguardism has lately had recourse to every trick to subvert
the authority of the Soviet Government and of the Communist Party am
ong the peasantry.
At the time of the Kronstadt insurrection they (the flhiteguard4)
met our Bed heroes with the song ”Za vlasts boviertov 51 when they
broke their way across the ice and into the fortress#
Messieurs the officers sang this song thinking to disfearte:; tne
men of the Bed Army.
The expedient did not succeed and Kronstadt was occupied.
There is not the slightest doubt that the workers in rural area
will not swallow the bait of the Mensheviks in this matter of a tri-