For one or two years he and his friends vastly developed their Esperanto activity. Starting then he began active, energetic, impetuous activity. Besides little circles, courses, and cells, he organized promotional spectaculars and put on sketches, whose text he wrote himself, or translated, or took from pre-revolutionary Esperanto reviews (for example, from "La Ondo de Esperanto", The Esperanto Wave). He himself began to publish a newspaper "Ruĝa Esperantisto", Red Esperantist. In this newspaper (under the pseudonym Vol-Volanto, 'Want-Wanter') the twenty-year-old Varankin published his verses and the verses of his friends, articles, translations, announcements, survey results, and also calls to the national and foreign Esperanto community to help the hungry in the young soviet republic. However, at that time he wrote in an Esperanto that was full of errors and very Russianesque.