Greens

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    • Green guerrilla forces
      Emerged, consisting mostly of peasants and sometimes led by anarchists or mercenaries
    • Activities of the Greens
      • Looting
      • Banditry
      • Fought both White and Red forces, causing further devastation
    • Nestor Makhno
      The most infamous Green chieftain
    • Makhno sometimes collaborated with the Communists

      Killed captured White officers
    • Makhno occasionally clashed with Red forces

      Executed captured political commissars
    • Peasants' logic
      Paradoxical: they supported Soviet power for providing them with land but opposed the Communists for taking their grain and cattle
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