Photos Russian Civil War 1917-1922

[Иван Феоктистов]

1921. The first train with food for the hungry from the Volga region.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Red soldiers, Minusinsk city. 1919

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

The entry of units of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia into Kharkov, 1919.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Baron Ungern von Sternberg is in custody in Irkutsk. 1921 year.

The Russian Civil War is rich in people with very interesting biographies. Baro Ungern stands out from the general row of adventurers, sadistic Cossacks and puppet governments that supported the interventionists. Baron Ungern thought, imagine, about the revival of the Mongol Empire... In his headquarters there was a huge number of pagan Mongol shamans, sorcerers. The superstitious population of Mongolia and North China considered him immortal. When everyone got tired of this madman, several Chinese soldiers tied him up (because they believed that he could not be killed with weapons) and gave him alive to the Red Army. As it turned out, magic does not work against the bullets of the Red Army. In a Soviet prison, he ate his reward, the St. George's Cross, in one night, so that no one would get it. Yes... The association that immediately comes to my mind is Colonel Kurz from "Apocalypse Now". Only much more cruel and with its own flavor.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Baron Ungern von Sternberg is in custody in Irkutsk. 1921 year.

The Russian Civil War is rich in people with very interesting biographies. Baro Ungern stands out from the general row of adventurers, sadistic Cossacks and puppet governments that supported the interventionists. Baron Ungern thought, imagine, about the revival of the Mongol Empire... In his headquarters there was a huge number of pagan Mongol shamans, sorcerers. The superstitious population of Mongolia and North China considered him immortal. When everyone got tired of this madman, several Chinese soldiers tied him up (because they believed that he could not be killed with weapons) and gave him alive to the Red Army. As it turned out, magic does not work against the bullets of the Red Army. In a Soviet prison, he ate his reward, the St. George's Cross, in one night, so that no one would get it. Yes... The association that immediately comes to my mind is Colonel Kurz from "Apocalypse Now". Only much more cruel and with its own flavor.

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The Baron is in prison.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A stern Red Army soldier demonstrates his weapon.

 

[DTA]

Nikolay Shchors with his solders are entering Kiev , 5 february 1919

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Red Army troops are going to assault Kazan, september 1918

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US troops in Arkhangelsk, Russia during winter 1918 as part of the Allied intervention forces against the Bolsheviks

 

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1917, a detachment of military students defend Kremlin.Apparently, this is the last time in history when the Kremlin was used precisely as a fortress

 

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1917 armed insurrection by Bolshevik militia against Provisional Government(St. Petersburg)

 

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Soldiers of the 225th Chinese International Regiment of the Red Army under the command of Zhen Fuchen. 1918

 

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Members of the White Army murdered by the Red Army in Russia. Photograph, 1917.

 

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Execution of the members of the Alexandrovo-Gaysky District regional Soviet by Cossacks under the command of Ataman Alexander Dutov, 1918.

 

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1918-1919 Victims of the Red Terror awaiting their burials.

The Red Terror (Russian: Красный террор, romanized: krasnyj terror) in Soviet Russia was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It started in late August 1918 after the beginning of the Russian Civil War and lasted until 1922. Arising after assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin and Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky, the latter of which was successful, the Red Terror was modeled on the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and sought to eliminate political dissent, opposition, and any other threat to Bolshevik power.