Word: kolchak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With neutral shipping at a Wartime premium, Denmark's Plum created Det Danske Transatlantiske Dampskibs-Sels-kab (Danish Transatlantic Steamship Corp.). Part of the huge profits he used after the Soviet Revolution to finance the anti-Bolshevist campaigns of "White Russian" General Yudenitch and Admiral Kolchak. Their failures cost him dear. In 1924 his Trans-Atlantic Corp. crashed for a stupendous loss to shareholders in which the Danish Landmansbank alone dropped 200,000,000 kroner ($53,600,000). Incensed, the Danish Government started to probe Plum...
During 1917-20, when the young Soviet Union was fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Blücher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Blücher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...
...customs of centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society. In the end he repudiated himself." To the Allies' shambling policy, or rather lack of policy regarding the Soviet, Churchill attributes much of Russia's tragedy. Timely support of Kolchak, brave but bewildered Czech general, would have given effective substance to the ghost war, "... a war in areas so vast that considerable armies, armies indeed of hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there were no real battles, only raids and affrays...
...previously put in the field against Red Russia. One army struck North from Estonia under General Nikolai Nicholaievich Yudenich, who in 1919 advanced until he could see the spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which he held sway to a third White Commander, General Anton Deniken, whose armies then dominated Southern Russia...
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...