English Translation

33a - 24." This kind of propaganda has often not missed its impression even on the intelligent Russians. 2. The fear of the superiors, in particular of the commissioners, is of no small influence. As it is noted, this has resulted from numerous reports from the front, which confirmed that the people were driven into the fight with machine guns. e) Causes of the tough resistance. It would be wrong, however, to dismiss the attitude of the Russian soldier alone with a stubbornness, with the argument of being dull or even with stupidity. It can also be assumed that the political commissioner alone would have had the power to force the Russian soldiers to the last resistance. Here, rather, the effects of a planned and purposeful Russian state leadership, which, on the one hand, has failed to give the average Russian no insight into the conditions of other countries, not even neighbouring countries, with the help of a well-established system of internal administration, and which on the other hand has hammered the Russian into the awareness that everything was for the best only in his country and that in all the other countries which he calls capitalists, only need and misery prevail and the most blatant horrors against their peoples in the situation order. Time and again, interrogations by Red Armists reveal that the Russian is not at the most distant anything about