Word: denikin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years-fought with inadequate arms, starvation rations, an exhausted population. They signed with Germany a treaty as punishing as the Treaty of Versailles, lost a quarter of their manufactures. Said Lenin, "I would give up Petrograd for a breathing spell of 20 days." They fought the armies of Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, the troops of sadistic Baron Ungern von Sternberg near Mongolia. Astonishing as was their victory to the outside world, in view of the forces against them, it was more astonishing to themselves-for as students of Marx they counted on revolution coming in the industrialized countries of the West...
...still raged, they broadcast frantically for peace: "To all! To all! To all!" They summoned a congress of the Third International, sent out a manifesto which began: "Europe is in flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving danger above everything, could appeal only to revolutionists. When the civil war ended they were masters of the country-a starving, typhus-ridden, spent and ruined country that lay, in "chaos and old night," from the steppes of the South to the black, reckless, European...
Frosty-bearded General Anton Denikin, commander of the White armies in their last-ditch fight against the Reds in the south of Russia in 1918-20, emerged from his Paris retirement last week to excoriate any "socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what...
Supported by dossiers gathered by his extra-legal White Russian secret service, General Denikin, who bears a strong resemblance to England's late King George V, charged that in addition to General Turkul, two other Tsarist officers, Generals Biskupsky and Solonevich, had gone into the pay of the Nazis...
...identified with a return of the monarchy. "The alternative to Bolshevism, had it failed to survive the ordeal of civil war, would not have been ... a Constituent Assembly, elected according to the most modern rules of equal suffrage and proportional representation, but a military dictator, a Kolchak or a Denikin, riding into Moscow on a white horse to the accompaniment of the clanging bells of the old capital's hundreds of churches...