What the Red Army Used to Suppress the Rebels

After the kronstadt rebellion was well and truly crushed, communist attention turned to the tamboff region in april 19 enty one. As any guerilla army needs a sympathetic civilian population to sustain them,. The communists targeted both rebels and civilians. They would take hostages and threaten to kill them if the rebels did not surrender. If the rebels didn't surrender, the hostages were executed. This also applied to physical property, like houses and barns, workshops and sometimes entire villages. Another hundred thousand imprisoned or deported. By the summer of 19 21, alexander antonoff himself slipped into hiding and continued to lead a small time guerilla group until he was killed by