Towards The October 1917 Revolt
In November 1911, he joined the Baltic Fleet. The first six months he served on a so-called "punishment" ship "Dvina". What caused this imprisonment, is not known. Victor Suvorov suggests it had nothing to do with the revolution, otherwise orthodox communist biographs would have described it in detail.
(The whole of the Baltic Fleet ships were at times referred to as "prison ships". Not as a result of a sailor's actions, rather the ill treatment that awaited the sailors. The "Dvina" was utilized by the Navy as a training vessel for the new recruits at Kronshtadt. Formally known as the "Azov's Memory" its sailors were veterans of the 1906 revolutionary actions. An infamous occasion which led to the Revel gardens and later a trip to Nargen Island.)
In 1912 he joined the Bolshevik Party. In 1915, he participated in the mutiny on board of the battleship Emperor Paul I. He was imprisoned for six months and sent as an infantry soldier to the German front. There he went on with anti-war propaganda, and was again imprisoned for 6 months.
He was released after the February 1917 revolution, and returned to the Baltic Fleet. In April 1917, he became the leader of the Tsentrobalt.
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