Word: denikine
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Stalin had had enough of the too ambitious Trotsky, creator of the Red Army and the real "savior" of the Soviet State from the armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party...
...start the game of putting White Russians to the sword, is Red Russia's greatest cavalry commander, Comrade Semion Micheilovitch Budenny, fierce, resourceful, reckless. His wife, from his own wild Kuban steppes, galloped and fought at his side when the young Soviet Republic was death-grappling with Wrangel and Denikin...
Soon Germany collapsed; and there began intervention in Russia by the Great Powers, assisting the "White Russian" or reactionary Tsarist commanders: Kolchak,* Denikin, Yudenich and Wrangel. This at last pushed the Bolsheviki so close to the wall that they began the "Red Terror...
...this year War Minister Leon Trotzky had built up the "Red Army" sufficiently to harass and wear down the "White Armies" to vanishing white hopes. Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...
Died. "General" Simon Petlura, onetime President of the short-lived Ukranian Republic (March to November, 1921), vacillating ally of the illfated anti-Bolshevist commanders Denikin and Wrangel; at Paris, after being shot five times by one Samuel Schwartzbar, "a Russian," who allegedly assassinated him in revenge for his onetime oppression of Ukranian Jews...