English Translation

12 Defenders;Begshevists have repeatedly fought energetically for the guerrilla war, since they clearly recognized his meaning. a) Lenin. Lenin expresses himself in an article "The Partisan War" as follows: "The guerrilla struggle is,r@ihe.inavoidable form of struggle at a time when the mass movement has developed into an insurrection and then there are more or less large gaps between the great battles in the civil war." He strongly opposes the view that in the partisan movement a bandit and predatory attitude is seen, rather, as the latest form of combat of the Marxist proletariat in its struggle for power. (b) Trotsky. Trotsky, the founder of the Red Army and the long-term war-commissary of the Soviet Union, paid full tribute to the valuable services of the guerrilla groups. He coined the term "war communism" and thus created the transition iordør purely military divisional work for the application of sabotage and terrorist acts in military-political terms. In a meeting of the Military-Scientific Society in Moscow on 29 July 1924, Trotsky pointed out the extremely important role of civil wars in the history of mankind, expressing his regret that this complex of questions was completely neglected by the war science.