I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.
I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.
Forced conscriptions, they demanded that peasants join under the excuse that the community had consented to anarchism and as a community volunteered to mobilize, and as such individuals who refused were branded traitors and liable to be punished or flat out summarily executed as sympathizers by the anarchist secret police.
Literally everyone who read anything about Makhno knows this is not true,
I have read about Makhno, from literally people who knew him personally like Voline, I should add that him and his men were notorious for gang rape during drunken parties and refused to pay his workers for things like repairing armored cars and running the railways.