Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Soviet truth. Age of Socialism. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] In Omsk, they poured orange paint over the figure of Kolchak (installed in 2002 near a restaurant) and added “Executioner.”
On the anniversary of the liberation of Omsk from Kolchak, no less.
Let me remind you that according to the conclusions of the military prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, Kolchak is a war criminal.
November 14 is the day of the liberation of Omsk from the Kolchak regime.
November 14, 1919, during the Omsk operation of the Red Army, the 27th Infantry Division of the 5th Army (commander - M.N. Tukhachevsky) immediately crossed the frozen Irtysh River and occupied Omsk. The 30,000-strong Omsk garrison of A.V. Kolchak’s White Army surrendered without a fight.
The offensive of the Red Army began on November 4 after the end of the Peter and Paul Operation, which was successful for it. White troops were concentrated to defend Omsk along the Irtysh. The 5th Army of the Red Army advanced along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the 3rd Army along the Ishim-Omsk railway.
At the same time, the 59th Infantry Division and the 13th Red Cavalry Division launched an attack on Kokchetav and Atbasar against the troops of A.I. Dutov. Due to ice drift on the Irtysh, which made crossing the river impossible, the white command considered the possibility of turning the army retreating to the east to the south, with the goal of then taking it to Altai.
On November 10, severe frost began, the Irtysh became clear and crossing it became possible. The White command decided to hastily complete the evacuation, destroy all military supplies in Omsk and withdraw the armies to the east; gather reserves on the Tatarsk line or on the Tomsk-Novonikolaevsk line in order to give a new battle there with all forces, including Pepelyaev’s 1st Army, previously withdrawn to the rear.
On November 13, five trains leaving Omsk formed the personal headquarters of the Supreme Ruler Admiral Kolchak, one of them with a gold reserve. Appointed commander-in-chief on November 4, K.V. Sakharov and his headquarters left Omsk for the east on November 14.
On the night of November 13-14, 1919, the 242nd Volga Rifle Regiment of the Red Army secretly crossed over the ice to the eastern bank of the Irtysh, the Red Army soldiers occupied the Omsk station and station buildings without firing a single shot, and by the morning they had disarmed 7 thousand white soldiers and officers who were in the trains. . On the morning of November 14, they captured the White Guard general Rimsky-Korsakov, who arrived at his place of duty.
The capture of Omsk was so unexpected that Kolchak’s institutions were captured during normal operation.
Soviet troops approached Omsk almost without resistance and occupied the city on November 15 without a fight. The 2nd and 3rd White armies retreated to Novonikolaevsk and Tomsk.
Thanks to the successful operation, the Red Army troops occupied grain-rich regions of Siberia and were given the opportunity to further advance against Kolchak’s troops.
From that moment on, Soviet power was firmly established in Omsk. The 27th Rifle Division of the Red Army was marked with the revolutionary Red Banner and received the honorary name of Omsk. Thousands of soldiers and commanders of the Red Army distinguished themselves in the battles for our city. According to research, there were more than 75 thousand victims of Kolchak’s rule in Siberia.
The remains of 120 Red Army soldiers, imprisoned in the Kolchak prison and executed the day before the admiral’s escape from Omsk, are buried in the Revolution Fighters Square.
At the present time, the Trans-Baikal Military Prosecutor's Office and the Trans-Baikal Military District Court, as is known, refused to recognize the admiral as a victim of political repression.