I'm not as well-versed on Soviet history as I ought to be, but wasn't Makhno's Free Ukraine in the East? Why would Trotsky want him to take Poland and not the rest of Ukraine? Great comic otherwise though.
Why would Trotsky want him to take Poland and not the rest of Ukraine?
I assume that panel was alluding to the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921 and implying that the red army wanted to use the anarchist black army as a meat shield in that war
I'm not as well-versed on Soviet history as I ought to be, but wasn't Makhno's Free Ukraine in the East? Why would Trotsky want him to take Poland and not the rest of Ukraine? Great comic otherwise though.
I assume that panel was alluding to the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921 and implying that the red army wanted to use the anarchist black army as a meat shield in that war
Ah, thanks! The comic makes much more sense now.
I guess there was also a Polish-Ukrainian war in 1918-1919
What a wild ass time to be alive, eh?