The Great Patriotic War

The patriotic calls in the spring of 19 20 proved highly successful, and the reds quickly raised an extra hundred thousand soldiers. Brusilof himself was then appointed chairman of a new advisory council of military officers. And he would remain in the service of the revolutionary military council until his death in 19 26. There is a reason stallan called the war against the nanses, the great patriotic war. The usefulness of intermixing russian patriotism with Russian communism was plainly evident. It would be used to great effect in the years and decades to come.