M. Kerensky's Forecast: The Revolution to Come In an interview at Paris, published by the "Lo Journal" M. Kerensky, remarked that a false idea prevails abroad as to what is now happening in Russia. People credit the Bolsheviks, he said, with a power which is in reality only artificial, and they seem to have a deplorable opinion of the Russian masses, whom the rest of Europe appear to think are only fit to be slaves and to live under some form of tyranny, whether that of a Tsar or Lenin. M. Kerensky continued I recognize that their passivity strengthens this opinion, but I know the Russian peasants as well as the Russian workmen, and I understand the reason for all those who have not lived in Russia. What is not understood outside Russia is that the masses are opposed above everything to any kind of restoration of the ancient regime. The propaganda, we have been carrying on for some months past in the interior of Russia is now bearing fruit, as is proved by the violence' of the campaign being carried on by the Bolshevist newspapers against revolutionary Sodalist and all other democratic journals. Risings are occurring in larger numbers in both town and country and in the Red armies.
I am absolutely convinced that Russia can only be freed by its own people. The present sporadic risings are bound to develop sooner or later into a completely revolutionary movement that will break out simultaneously in Siberia, in the south, in the Uvals—everywhere. This will split the Red army into two parts, the one Bolshevist and the other anti-Bolshevist. That is another error. The Red army is not Bolshevist. The Communist organizations, the shock troops, the regiments composed of Chinese, Magyars, Letts, and other mercenaries, form only a fifth part of Trotzky's armies, and if so far the bulk of Russian, troops have not mutinied, it is only because they did not wish to favour the designs of Generals like Koltchak and Wrangel. Now that such fears, which rendered the Red troops undecided, have disappeared, their attitude may soon change. the war was carried on by a Democratic Administration, the new Secretary of War will not have to read the report to know its contents, but the taxpayer will have the satisfaction of knowing that several thousands of pounds: have been spent on reporting the evidence and printing it,
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