"“Historian Michael Malet writes that at this time,“criminals entered the army for what they could get out of it, especially plunder in the towns.”
Excerpt From: Sean Patterson. “Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917–1921.”
It's very much just denialism of Soviet success & idolizing what never "could've been" rather than accepting reality
We can't beatify Makhno and write hagiographies for a man who when:
"A delegation from Novozlatopol once went to Machno [sic] to discuss his raids against the Jews. Machno’s reply was “What can I do ? They’re just a bunch of ignorant peasants”, referring to his own men.”
no, Makhno should've been BTFO'd because his bands were doing pogroms & not assisting with the anti-imperialist war in the West
Lionizing Makhno is just comporting oneself with anti-communist Western Sovietology, not with the facts on the ground of the revolution
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"“Historian Michael Malet writes that at this time,“criminals entered the army for what they could get out of it, especially plunder in the towns.”
Excerpt From: Sean Patterson. “Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917–1921.”
It's very much just denialism of Soviet success & idolizing what never "could've been" rather than accepting reality
We can't beatify Makhno and write hagiographies for a man who when:
"A delegation from Novozlatopol once went to Machno [sic] to discuss his raids against the Jews. Machno’s reply was “What can I do ? They’re just a bunch of ignorant peasants”, referring to his own men.”