• alternative_factor@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    NNNOOOO!!! HOW DARE YOU UN-WHITEWASH LENIN!!! NOOOO!!! Tankies tried SO HARD to make Makhno disappear like Trotsky! You LIBERAL AMERICANS!!! REEEEEE!!!

    • mycorrhiza they/them@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      the Makhnovists and the Bolsheviks were mutual military and ideological foes who fought each other in protracted open combat, the Makhnovists were not some helpless party betrayed by the Bolsheviks.

        • mycorrhiza they/them@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          it appears to have been mutually understood

          After the Seige of Perekop, Makhno’s aide-de-camp Grigori Vassilevsky, announced the agreement was over:

          That’s the end for the agreement! Take my word for it, within one week the Bolsheviks are going to come down on us like a ton of bricks!

          — Grigori Vassilevsky, quoted in the same book