File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎649v] (946/1080)

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“ But a concrete external position for Soviet Eussia is not sufficient. "VTe
must strengthen our internal economic position, and must needs work obstin
ately and progressively under the guidance of the Soviet power and the com
munist party
A poster has been issued which couples the signing of the trade agreement
and the subjugation of Kronstadt as two great Eussian victories.
A new newspaper has been started at Askbabad. Its title is “ Professional
Life '\ It appears to be devoted to the organizational work of the professional
unions.
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Details or the taking oe Kkonstadt.
The Red Flog over Kronstadt.
Retrograde The red army has taken Kronstadt by storm. A
great part of the town and fortress is in our hands. Komissar of the Baltic
Fleet, Kuzmin, and the President of the Kronstadt Soviet, Yassilev, have been
set at liberty by our troopsentering Kronstadt. Kuzmin is already’ sharing i n
the final liquidation of the mutiny.
Flight of Ringleaders.
March 77//L—On the 17tb March a regiment of a certain division and
elements of a detachment of the Special Commission entered Kronstadt by the
Petrograd Gate. The Kronstadt mutiny is finally suppressed. The town, all
the forts, and the- whole fleet have submitted to (he Soviet power. ’The
nutineers and General Kozlovski have fled across the Finnish frontier All
Communists arrested by the mutineers have been set at liberty.
A splendid Fxhibition of Concordance.
Immediately after the occupation of the forts the staff began to receive
information and was able to direct the captured guns against the mutineers.
Heroism and Manhooch
The Eed detachments vied with each other in the fight. One must narti-
cularly note the manhood and heroism of a certain regiment from the Western
front Practically without any stragglers, the heroes threw themselves into the
assault and entered the town by the Petrograd Gate, surrounded the prison and
treed the Communists incarcerated there who thereupon seized arms and threw
themselves into the fight.
Oramenbaum, 17th March.—At midday on the 17th fire from the
Kronstadt batteries ceased. A great number of the forts were si 1 Ant
the “Petropavlovsk” fired from her heavy guns. We replied with artillery
fire. Our Eed troops had driven out the mutineers and Kronstadt nassed
into our hands. passed
The West and the events of Kkonstadt.
. The Central Committee of the Cadet Party adopted
m Conference a resolution in which they complimented the Kronstadt revolt
Berlin, 15th Kussian reactionaries in Berlin have proved them-
selves more farseeing than their analogues in Paris. They recognized that
the Kronstadt mutiny had little ehanee of success and appeared to he disorganiz
ed. Their attempts to render help to Kronstadt haye met with ill success! The
President of the Eussian Eed Cross at Helsingfors complained that the Finnish
authorities would not permit him to send food to Kronstadt.