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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
Soviets. To achieve complete emancipation the minority nationality
shall, for its part, assist the Soviet Revolution in securing a victory
on a national scale.
CONCRETE TASKS CONFRONTING THE SOVIETS
IN SHATTERING THE FIFTH CAMPAIGN
OF IMPERIALISM AND THE KMT
FROM MARX
TO MAO
In the past two years the Soviets have scored successive victories
over the KMT; as a result of which the relation of power between
the Soviets and KMT has apparently changed in favour of the
former, but at the expense of the latter. The Soviets have consoli-
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dated, but the KMT has been steadily on the decline. The masses in
KMT territory have put up the revolutionary flag. But owing to the
fact that the Soviets are situated in a region economically backward,
with only a comparatively small area, we must extend our territory
and fight for the realization of the task of capturing one or more
provinces. We must shatter the illusions of those who are satisfied
with the present limited area of the Soviets. The revolutionary
masses under the Soviets are called on to fight for carrying out of
the following urgent tasks:
NOT FOR
COMMERCIAL
RECONSTRUCTION OF RED ARMY
First of all the Central Revolutionary Military Committee shall
be strengthened in its leadership of the whole Red Army so as to
make it possible for the Red Army to act more efficiently under a
DISTRIBUTION
unified, strengthened command. In the second place, the expansion
of the Red Army to 1,000,000 as a slogan must be popularized among
the toiling masses, enabling them to understand that a Red Army of
1,000,000 soldiers is a decisive factor in the struggle against imperialism
and the KMT. Recruiting shall be made through political
agitation instead of compulsion. At the same time, a sharp class
struggle together with the Soviet laws shall be directed against the
alien elements who blocked the expansion of the Red Army by desertions.
The families of those in the Red Army shall be treated in a
better way. Land shall be cultivated and ploughed for them, articles
of everyday use supplied to them, in order to comfort them spiritu-
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