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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
sans, and provisions, supplies, and transportation for the war. The
Soviet has been successful in its work along this line during the past
two years, particularly during the fourth offensive and the present
determined struggle against the fifth one.
The formation of the Central Revolutionary Military Council has
unified the leadership over the national Red troops and made the
Red forces in every Soviet district and on any front to be able to
fight and to operate in good co-ordination under the unified tactics.
This is an important turn to convert the scattered activities of partisan
troops into activities of regular and big scale Red Armies. The
Revolutionary Military Council in the past two years has victoriously
led the country-wide Red Armies, particularly those of the
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Central Soviet District, in the smashing of the 4th offensive and in
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the initial successes of the struggle against the fifth offensive. The
Red Army is now several times bigger than it was two years ago.
This work owes its success to the militancy of the broad worker peasant
masses to join the Red Army, to the improvement of the mobilization
methods, and to the determined execution of the special treatment
for the red fighters by the Soviet. During May, 1933, in the
Central Soviet District alone, the Red Army was increased by twenty
thousand new fighters from the various hsien. This smashed the
various opportunistic points of view that the masses are not willing
to join the Red Army or NOT that enlargement FOR of the Red army cannot be
achieved in new Soviet districts. There are many models of the work
to enlarge the Red Army. For instance, in Chankanhsian, Kiangsi,
80 per cent of the COMMERCIAL
men between 16 and 45 and in Shangwanshihsian,
Fukien, 88 per cent of them are now serving in the Red Army. In
these villages with the overwhelming majority of the adults going
to bravely fight in the revolutionary war, the daily affairs of farming
production are DISTRIBUTION
not only not affected, but also improved and enlarged!
Why is that so? The village labour power has been readjusted
and reorganized better, and the difficult problems confronting
the families of the Red fighters have been solved through the
efforts exerted by the Labour Co-operative and Farming Volunteers.
The strengthening of the Red Army has proceeded along with its
enlargement. Now the Red Army is proceeding to assume the form
of ironsides as regular revolutionary armed forces. The causes are:
(1) growth of the percentage of worker-peasant toiling masses in it;
(2) more worker cadres and universal practice of political commissioner
system; (3) the progress of political training strengthened the
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