Bab 68: Propaganda

To say that the Red Army had doubled in size since the death of Leon Trotsky and the 80,000 men beneath his command at Saint Petersburg was an understatement. The new year had begun, and with it the winter was slowly starting to die out.

Ample preparations had been made after the citizens of Tsaritsyn had revolted, seizing control of the means of production and using them to enhance their military capabilities.

They knew it was only a matter of time until the Tsar's forces launched a full scale offensive against them. And currently, Tsaritsyn was defended by 100,000 members of the Red Army. Which though they did not know it yet, would be 4x larger than the forces sent to take the city back from them.

Trotsky's death was not the serious blow to the Bolshevik movement that Bruno thought it would be. At the end of the day, such an insidious and destructive ideology was harder to stamp out than a colony of roaches.