 By 1923 Rauze had come to believe that the Red Army, instead of dissolving itself after defeating the Allied invasion of Russia, was turning into a permanent professional force.She became an extreme pacifist, forming a "union against death" that had almost mystical beliefs bordering on anarchism, mysticism and Esperanto.Romain Rolland told her that her thinking was "too exclusively (nearly exclusively) anti, that is negative."