Yes, I love all that old Russia stuff. Part of the problem during the Civil War was that once the Bolsheviks defeated the Mensheviks, they were pretty much unified against the anti-communists. You had people like Batka Makhno who is now a kind of folk hero who fought against everyone in defense of southern Ukraine, eventually fighting the Red Army, but too late because the Red was the only faction left and they concentrated everything on them in the Ukrainian front. He wasn't explicitly ideological, however.
And then you had real badasses like this guy. Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, or as he was known among his troops, "The Mad Baron."
I guess the point is that the Communists were smaller, but they were highly organized and very willing to mete out stunning brutality against anyone who opposed them. Their opponents were disorganized. Until Gen Pyotr Wernberg took command of the White Army, it was mostly ineffective and disorganized.
This is a warning to us now. Antifa and the like are highly organized. And consider that Antifa itself is part of a bigger much broader organization that can call on not only Antifa, but BLM, unions, left-wing law guilds, and an entire gamut of leftwing organizations that can be called upon when the need arises.
Yes, I love all that old Russia stuff. Part of the problem during the Civil War was that once the Bolsheviks defeated the Mensheviks, they were pretty much unified against the anti-communists. You had people like Batka Makhno who is now a kind of folk hero who fought against everyone in defense of southern Ukraine, eventually fighting the Red Army, but too late because the Red was the only faction left and they concentrated everything on them in the Ukrainian front. He wasn't explicitly ideological, however.
And then you had real badasses like this guy. Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, or as he was known among his troops, "The Mad Baron."
I guess the point is that the Communists were smaller, but they were highly organized and very willing to mete out stunning brutality against anyone who opposed them. Their opponents were disorganized. Until Gen Pyotr Wernberg took command of the White Army, it was mostly ineffective and disorganized.
This is a warning to us now. Antifa and the like are highly organized. And consider that Antifa itself is part of a bigger much broader organization that can call on not only Antifa, but BLM, unions, left-wing law guilds, and an entire gamut of leftwing organizations that can be called upon when the need arises.