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

Behind the Bastards

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The Whites Don't Take Moscow

Makhnow captures thousands and all of the officers he captures, but he lets the enlisted men live. Hundreds were slain on the banks of the Senyukia River. Corpses stretched out from miles. Makhnov ordered his intelligence forces to track down and kill every soldier and local leader responsible for anti-Jewish pogroms or massacres of leftists. Collaborators and suspected collaborators were killed in revenge for the tens of thousands who'd been murdered by Dinniken's men.

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