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Part Two: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado

Behind the Bastards

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Makno and the Ukrainian Nationalists

In 1917, Makno and his anarchists were at this point very far from the center of shit happening in Russia. The Ukrainian nationalists wanted to reverse all the progressive social changes and basically re-institute something similar to serfdom. So he's like, we got to fight these guys and working with the government is the only way to do it,. Because they're worse than the government, but also fuck the government.

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