Charges that the Red Army is permeated throughout with anti-Semitism are made in a local Russian paper, “Rul”.
The writer, a counter-revolutionary general named Frisnse, quoting from alleged Russian army official records, asserts that the Soviet General Worosilow was forced to withraw appointments of Jews as army officers because of the opposition of Red troops.
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