SOVIET’S ARMY v
FINANCES ARE HOPELESS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Paris, April 4. Moscow's Red Army is the sheerest bluff, asserts the usually well-inform-ed 'Russian newspaper published here. “The Soviet Government now has Rail a, million men. armed and well disciplined. They are loyal, but the financial machinery is hopeless. There are no -reserves and the present stocks of war material would not last more than a . fortnight.” The writer point!* out that the refusal of the Bolshevist system to permit the accumulation of capital may
bo politically advantageous to the Corel union,t, because it precludes the devolopmenf of hostile wealthy elements but the revenue side of the system is that the country is destitute of reserves without which it- would he impossible to sustain a« military campaign.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 6 April 1929, Page 7
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