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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Lessons From the Bitter End: What General Wrangel Means for Americans Today

The true history of the Russian Revolution and ensuing Civil War is a lot more complicated. Not many people know that the conflict involved nearly a dozen modern nations, hundreds of thousands of troops, and advanced tactics that wouldn’t be seen again until the 1940s. An astounding 12 million people died, and it’s barely covered at all.

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