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...sailors of Kronstadt, who had helped to bring about the revolution and to dissolve the Constituent Assembly, rose against the Lenin regime, crying: "Enough shooting of our brothers!" Lenin crushed the revolt. By conservative estimate, 5,000,000 died in the first few years of his rule. But Lenin realized that the time had come for changes. Politically, the regime stayed as dictatorial as before, but he instituted the New Economic Policy, a right turn toward partial capitalism that gave groaning Russia a brief respite. It was to be among Lenin's last official acts...
...costly investment in cruisers, the Russians have decided on essentially a submarine force (500 boats) as the heart of their navy. The sub is basically a defense weapon, designed to deny the seas to an enemy. As any tourist can see, there is no military shipbuilding at the massive Kronstadt yards near Leningrad. The ways are jammed instead with commercial shipping; four cruisers of the Sverdlov class lie there still uncompleted. In tune with the defensive concept is the fact that the Russians have devised the most deadly mines yet known in warfare. One navy officer told me that...
...century Tauride Palace was filled with artillery, machine guns, field kitchens. All the gates in the high grillwork fence were bolted except a small wicket gate at the extreme left, where we entered, single file. Each ticket of admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian...
...plotter's revolution. One night, eight months after the February revolution, his men seized the key points in Petrograd. They grabbed the telegraph office in order to "telegraph the revolution to the provinces." Soon afterwards, a Lettish regiment (controlled by the Bolshevik Party) and the sailors of Kronstadt dispersed the freely elected Constituent Assembly in which his Bolsheviks had only a 26% minority...
...sacrifice helped prevent the German from shattering Russia's Murmansk supply route and enabled Russia to keep Kronstadt, its last base in the Baltic. From Kronstadt Russian submarines and other survivors of the Red Fleet last week were still harassing Axis ships in the Gulf of Finland. On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults. Leeb's armies, which once had plunged 125 miles east, now had been pushed back 100 miles and were holding a corridor only eight miles wide stretching north to Lake Ladoga (see map). Against both sides of the corridor...