The Russian Civil War Part 2: 1919-1920 | Denikin's Moscow Directive & Yudenich | Polandball History 

*💬Bonus Reading below: Could the Whites have won the war?* 🥰Patreon: www.patreon.com/CallMeEzekiel ▶RU-vid Memberships: ru-vid.com/show-UCnZ1r94_Ptz_1gN5VBnE0Mgjoin ⭐SubscribeStar: www.subscribestar.com/CallMeEzekiel 🙏PayPal: www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=EAQPBZ8VHGFL6 Crypto: 💸 🟠BTC: bc1qj2szqj0h0rj2zz5x0zdhr8fzrh85zmatwxht26 🔵ETH: 0x0344A4aF3eCe5F8E5C0f65FC4c7eB667bf31cD60 📚Main sources: 🔴Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War: amzn.to/3DTcS52 ⚪The Russian Civil War: amzn.to/3h4PDvV 🎖The Russian Civil War (Men-at-Arms) Parts 1 & 2: amzn.to/3zzSRhq Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. You can also watch us on... 👀 ❤Odysee: odysee.com/@CallMeEzekiel 💚Rumble: rumble.com/CallMeEzekiel *💬Bonus Reading:* This is entirely my opinion… The Whites could have won the war in two possible ways. But first I want to cover how they could not have won: There is no way Kolchak could have won his front. The Siberian Whites were dealt a poor hand and they played it poorly. If Kolchak had perfect knowledge of the future, he could have taken a more defensive posture and waited to launch his offensive at the same time as Denikin. But Kolchak had no way of knowing that Denikin would be as successful as he was. Even with that knowledge, both Kolchak and Denikin attacked the Bolsheviks as soon as possible because time was on the Bolsheviks’ side. The other way they could not have won concerns Wrangel… his infamous criticism of the Moscow Directive probably wouldn’t have saved the White army. It’s important to remember that Wrangel and Denikin were rivals, so Wrangel had a vested interest in contradicting Denikin at every opportunity. We also get most of this information through Wrangel’s memoir in which Wrangel obviously tries to make himself look as good as possible and does not have Denikin’s perspective. Denikin had legitimate concerns that enforcing discipline could have split the White movement - which would have been catastrophic, stopping the march on Moscow before it began. So what are the two ways the Whites could have won? The first would be if the Moscow Directive had been carried out closer to Denikin’s original plan. If the 10,000-15,000 Whites hadn’t invaded Ukraine, they would have been in place to hold back Makhno’s Blacks and/or strengthen the northern offensive. This would have significantly increased the chances of taking Moscow. The other possible route to White victory does not involve a change in the White’s actions, but to the Bolsheviks’. If the Bolsheviks had stuck to their initial panic and abandoned Petrograd to Yudenich, then they could have easily lost the whole war. Yudenich was in a weak position with few men and reluctant allied support. Had he taken Petrograd, Yudenich would have suddenly gained access to a massive pool of new recruits, and such a massive success would have certainly led to far more Allied support. In fact, not only would the Allies have probably supplied him, but they’d have been better able to do so than Kolchak or Denikin. Located on the Baltic coast, Petrograd was way easier to supply by sea than Siberia or the Caucasus. Plus, the supplies would have landed right where they were needed in Petrograd, instead of hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of miles away from the front.

I always have thought that the Russian civil war was such an interesting conflict both ideologically and militarily, it’s a shame it’s not talked about more.

I've read Wrangles Memoirs. He is widely regarded as one of the most competent White Generals. He had some strong words so to say about Denikins march on Moscow, he opted instead to link up with Kolchak along the Volga. when the front collapsed and the whites retreated to the Crimea, Wrangel was instated in command. they were able to hold for 8 months, during which Wrangel instituted very popular land reform. They even managed to counter attack, taking a region of the southern Ukraine and reaching the Dnieper. Wrangel still had hope during this time, He had gotten some aid from the French and was actively cooperating with the Poles (who were hot in the middle of the Polish Soviet war of 1921) and to a lesser extent the Georgians. But when the Poles were defeated and the Reds could concentrate their full power on Wrangel, he was eventually defeated, although he put up a very valiant fight -- having fortified the straights and land connections into the Crimea.

I’d like to see Ezekiel’s take on the Mexican American war, or the concept of bioleninisim.

i love how you talk about the war and how you pair up the drawings with them! its sad that i dont see that style anywhere else besides kraut and now dead brain4breakfast...

Great video I would like if you dwell more into the Russian Civil war, in your future videos. Especially the Central Asian Front

I can't imagine trying to play a civil war like this in Hearts of Iron, besides Spain.

The russian civil war is extremly interesting thank you for Making this Video

Please, make part 3, talk aboout of the defense of Armyansk, evacuation from sevastopol, The death of Kolchak, The Basmachi resistence, Transbaikal campaign, Japanese intervention in The Far East, Semirechye Campaign, the defeat of North Region, Pepelyaev fight in Yakutia and about the White resistence in Primorye.

You could also make a video where you talk about other nationalities such as Poles and Fins that fought in a Russian Civil War

FINALLY PART TWO! Great video, hello from Latvia!

Been waiting for part 2! Excellent work as always!

Great Video just as always 👍

I'd love to see you talk about the Brabant revolution. It's not really well known.

you know its gonna be a good day when ezekiel uploads

Such a Great video

Thumbnails awesome I didn’t know what I was looking at at first in the center

As always amazing video guys, keep up the awesome work! About the subject of the video, it would've been very interesting to see the Moscow initiative somehow succeeded, this devastating loss might have tipped people over the edge and convinced them that the bolsheviks arent that good, politcal fighting might've broken out, not to mention that the red forces in Siberia might've been decimated by this, but this is also highly unlikely, someone can only ponder on how people felt about the war when it was happening

So basically the Russian civil war is irl battle royale of the different factions

5:58 “the Cheka in Lenin’s reign killed 7x more than the last hundred years of tsars” one counterpoint: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide never forgive never forget.

THIS IS GREAT!!!

Amazing

Wrangel was the only competent White leader. Kolchak was a megalomaniac, Denikin was arrogant and unwilling to compromise and Yudenich simply did not have enough forces.

Now on to part three Ungern Sternberg

Wasn't denikin responsible for a lot of pogroms during the war?

damn i love this type of content

Makhno played a huge role in the war. And then the whole black army got deleted.

First, but now awesome video I have to make a project about Russia and this is very useful.

The beauty and irony that is the ruskis take of civl war... its euphoric

id love to see you do an in-depth explanation of the prince and Machiavellianism as you did with objectivism.

they did my boy Kolchak dirty

The calvary was pretty op

Hello! Does anyone know a good book I can read about the Russian civil war? Like memoir or something of that sort I really love Russian history and I would love to read about denim in and kolchak

2:20 Here One Wonders: How Did Everything Go Soo Wrong

Estonia ball looks like a robber, its cute

Great video, wish Makhno was mentioned more tho

Let's gooooo

Just rewatched the 1st Video

part 2 in a 2 part series tripartite pact one man would won but couldn't be one as a someone idk why are the first two hard to spell.

Then Crimea became disputed territory like Taiwan in the Chinese civil war that happened in the 1900s.

Do one on Ungern-Sternberg!

The Glorious Story of an Unglorious War

Ah I remember when this channel was about Victoria 2 haw to snd now Victoria 3 is on the way.

Are you going to make a video of other white army holdout in 1921-1923 like in the far east of russia

Pls do latvia war of independence pls

Watching your videos on the Russian civil war always makes me so sad... But Excellent work as always!

Never ask denikin his opinion on pogroms, worst mistake of my life

looking back on the scene when you showed a Cheka gulags the guards had aks just a thing that just annoys me but you make great content man keep going

what is the name of the song in the background

They were so close

Wonder how it ends

I would like to see a video about Keynesian Economics, the only mention of it is in a negative way on the Austrian Economics one, I would like to see the arguments for it now and not against. Also a video on Georgism

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Damn. Denikin really had a shot there. Also i like that hoi4 music playing in the background.

Great video as always. Maybe you could do a video on chinese civil war next. Since it's also a war about coumminst revolution but also part of my country's history And the root of the China we face today. It would be intresting to see your take on it

Waiting for the North Army of the General Miller and Karelian Legion

Wouldn't be amazing if you could talk about the green army in the russian civil war?

So sad that the white army lost in the end. I can only imagine how many lives would have been saved if they had won.

after the final video, maybe do the russian civil from another perspecitve, say a polish one? if u can't tell im suggesting a video or 2 about the first polish-soviet war, first video at the intial launch, cutting at the battle of warsaw, then the second telling about the near impossible suscess at warsaw and the retreat and then final peace deal maybe do another reading in the comments about if soviet forces took warsaw?

Wrangel always on the grindset

Hello

Funnily enough, I have a paper due tonight on the Civil War and you mentioned a few things I missed. Do you keep your sources somewhere we can access?

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>Worker's empire Genius

I'd love to see your take on the Mexican revolution since it is also quite messy

Russia was scary.

I love the Russian civil war

2:53 hahahaha ive seen this on brains4breakfasts video about russia vs the world

The cosecs have the old flag of romani

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The kudlaks hoarded and they're food supply

Lol still using HOI 4 music.

Again the HoI2 music in the background, but it's really quiet? Or am I imagining it?

What if Russian civil war 2 with Ukraine

glory to the revolution!

drat i'm later then the japanese army welp since i'm late, let me make a joke the unity of the white movement

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I guess it's just the force of habit Russian invading Ukraine 5:55

It sounds like nonsense, and it is. For those who do not understand what kulakism is. At that time, there were three groups of peasants in the peasant environment: the poor, the middle peasants and the "kulaks". The middle peasants were not wealthy peasants like the Kulaks, but they were not poor either. The Kulaks were a group of well-to-do peasants. The most important thing is that they DIDN'T produce ANYTHING. They enriched themselves by usury, lending grain to the peasants (at interest). If the year was lean or the harvest was insufficient, the peasant could not pay off the representative of the kulaks. These representatives were the so-called "podkulachniki". In such a situation, they came to the debtor, beat him, then either took what they had (since the peasants mostly lived in large families, they could also take the debtor's daughter or wife to use them later as servants and so that the peasant did not inform the Cheka, that is, they took hostages.) and the peasant remained with nothing and was forced to work for kulak for free. Or they killed him (usually together with his family, so as not to leave witnesses). Besides, what is this nonsense about the lack of cavalry in the Red Army? The Red Army had cavalry from the very beginning, since its creation in February 1918. There weren't even that many mounted armies. Among them is the legendary first cavalry army under the command of the future Marshal Budyonny. I am writing through Google Translator, I apologize if there are any inaccuracies or errors in the text.

4:57 idk why Russians supported Lenin and Communism.... 😐

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It was from 1917-1922, or are the other years covered in other parts?

Algorithm help

The fact hes saying coessack and not cohssack is pain

Russian history in 5 words: And then it was worse.

I do wish you presented the invasion of Ukraine with a bit more detail. Denikin was absolutely onboard with grabbing swathes of Ukraine, and he at best tacitly approved of the large scale atrocities committed there. It wasn't so much that thousands of soldiers were being tied up as it was that they were mauled and savaged so badly that they had to pull out, and how White atrocities convinced Makno to make common cause with the Reds, which obviously only benefitted the Reds in the end. What could have been if it wasn't for Trotsky though.

can someone explain why the jews are squares

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Always the same war.

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You give far too much credit to Denikin, had the forces in the south been under Wrangel's command they would have fared better.

What happened in Crimea?

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Estonia did not have a civil war. It declared independence and was invaded by russia.

Go Reds!

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It's morbin time - Stalin, circa 1939 (Kyiv)

Out of curiosity, what are your sources?

The bad ending