Although there is growing awareness of the heroic efforts of Polish, Ukrainian, and Finnish forces in opposing the series of communist invasions that followed the Russian Revolution, the actual Russian effort to oppose communism by force was largely unsung until recently. The memoirs of the last leader of Russian anti-communist forces, General Pyotr Wrangel, were republished under the title Always with Honor in 2020 by an obscure publishing house, generating new interest in the man and his struggle to save his country.
The book gives a first-hand narrative of the Russian Revolution and the desperate fighting that followed. The history is interesting in its own right, but Wrangel also illustrates many lessons that Americans facing an out-of-control government and new wave of leftwing political violence should take to heart.
-WiscoDave, Alemaster
Wrangel's a Russian name?
ReplyDeleteLots of Germans went to Russia for various reasons. Others were descendants of the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic states, part of the Russian Empire since the 1700s. Also other Europeans were lured there. They were over-represented in the nobility in parts of Russia and certainly in the army.
DeleteHad the privilege of working with a former White Russian soldier while working for DIA in Berlin in the 1969-71 era…He and what was left of the the Southern White Army walked from the Ukraine to Czechoslovakia during the winter of 1921-22.
ReplyDeleteHis unit was incorporated into the Czechoslovakian Army for a few years….He survived WW2 working in a weapons factory in Brno and settled in Berlin after the war…He was taken off the UBahn going from Wedding to the Tempolhof area when it stopped at the Freidrickstrasse Station two years after providing temporary shelter to a Russian (Ukrainian actually)…..ended up spending 10 year in Siberia and surviving….
I felt like I was talking to a history book as He told fantastic stories over mid morning coffees…and was still doing what he could to fight the Soviet Communists
The Bolsheviks rebranded themselves under multiple different labels (always with the name changing!) and have more power than ever. “Neocon” is one of those labels. But always with the resentment and the never-to-be satiated lust for “vengeance.” But I’ll tell you a secret: This “pre-emptive revenge” bullshit is getting old and even normies are noticing.
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