 The CNT saw the militias as representing the will of the people while a centralized army was against its anti-authoritarian principles.They also feared the army as an organ of the Communist party, and these fears were backed up by the historical suppression of Russian anarchists by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.However, the CNT were eventually forced to yield to militarization, since the government refused to supply and arm its militias unless they joined the regular army.