The Cossacks of Russia - Episode Ten Point 76

The cossack regions of southern russia were the origin point for what would become the white armies of the civil war. Lenin and the soviet leadership naturally considered these cossacks to be the most dangerous threat to their regime. They had set up the leader of the don cossacks, general alexey kalandin, as a major reactionary buggy man. The fighting is such that on ded over the winter of 19 17 19 18, was mostly small detachments of red guards arriving in cities by train and installing pro-soviet authorities.