The struggle for Red Petrograd. Kornatovsky N.

The book of the famous historian N. A. Kornatovsky “The struggle for Red Petrograd” was light in 1929. And then she went “into the shadow”, because she did not fit into new myths, folded about the civil war.

The answer to the question “Why the White did not take Petrograd” is by no means so simple. There was heroism, there was a self -sacrifice. But there was mass desertion, and the entire regiments of the White, formed from prisoners of the Red Army.

The Petrograd Council released an appeal in October 1919, which began with the words “Come back! To whom are you receding? "

And there was also a methodological betrayal of the" allies "on the Entente who wanted to bury the white movement.

The struggle for Red Petrograd is not only the Cossacks of Krasnov ( of which there were only 8 hundred!), This is not only the "Kronstadsky ice." These are concentration camps in Estonia, where Russian people were massively dying. This is an English fleet, which "disappeared" at the most crucial moment of the offensive of the North-Western Army.

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