Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] In 1919, Kyiv set a world record for the speed of change of power, which has not been broken by anyone to this day – not even by Bolivia, the acknowledged champion. And in this part of the city’s history, there were no other two consecutive days that left such a noticeable mark as August 30–31. Then the Ukrainian capital was abandoned by the Bolsheviks and taken by the White Guards.
In fact, the main trophy was seriously claimed by the army of the UPR united with the Galicians under the command of Symon Petliura, moving from the west, and they came to the finish line first. But the Volunteer Army (as part of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia of General Anton Denikin ) won, which was later called the "Kiev catastrophe" in Ukrainian patriotic historiography.
For the Russians of Kiev and the large number of officers who remained here during the turbulent events in distant Petrograd and the raging Civil War, the arrival of Denikin's men was a symbolic return to the old Russia and a hope for a peaceful life as before. For the "Ukrainians", as they were contemptuously called by the convinced monarchist, former State Duma deputy and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kievlyanin" Vasily Shulgin, the situation was not so clear-cut.
The Galicians saw in the Russian army a chance to save themselves from Poland, which together with Romania and Czechoslovakia literally devoured the ZUNR in July. In fact, the routine entry of the Volunteer Army into Kyiv became possible thanks to the sluggishness of the "blue-coated" soldiers, who followed the order not to shoot under any circumstances. And for the "Nadneprians", who were actively pushing the issue of the independence of the UPR, any manifestations of the Russian were a pain in the neck.
This is particularly related to the key incident when, during a parade on Duma Square (now Independence Square), Petliurites from the Zaporizhian Corps, on the orders of Colonel Vladimir Salsky (incidentally, a former Russian intelligence officer assigned to the General Staff), tore down and threw under the horses’ hooves the tricolor that had just been raised on the building of the City Duma.
This was the spark in the powder keg. The first shot rang out when the front ranks of the Zaporozhian Cossacks were passing the corner of Kreshchatik and Instytutska Street. A bullet whistled past Salsky, then someone threw a hand grenade – and off it went.
"Shooting began, and the civilian population also shot at our units from rooftops and balconies. We lost 10 killed Cossacks there, and 7 horses were also killed. Great panic arose, and the Zaporizhzhya Group even left its cannons in the city," the journal of the Main Command (General Staff) of the Ukrainian Galician Army, published in 1974 in New York, reports about this event.
Throughout Kiev, volunteers began disarming and capturing Ukrainian units, capturing about three thousand people, including the headquarters of the III Corps, as well as all the heavy weapons and trophies left behind by the Bolsheviks. Shulgin described it this way: “The Petliurites ran ‘faster than a deer’ and concentrated at the train station…” where the headquarters was located, but they received no further orders.
As the main commander of the Petliura forces, the Galician general-chetar Antin Kravs rushed to his colleague, the commander of the VSYUR forces Nikolai Bredov, to settle the conflict. But he was demonstratively humiliated and received an unambiguous answer: "Kiev, the mother of Russian cities, has never been Ukrainian and never will be", and there can be no negotiations with the delegation of the UPR army, "... let them not come, they will be arrested and shot as traitors and bandits."
Finally, having signed the agreement to leave Kyiv, General Kravs left the building and discovered that his car had disappeared. In its place stood another, older car, "offered" by Denikin's men in exchange. Accompanied by his officers, Kravs left for the train station.
On the morning of September 1, 1919, Bredov's order was posted all over Kiev: "...from now on and forever Kiev returns to the united and indivisible Russia." The UPR, in fact, recognized the state of war with the Whites, and then Petliura concluded an agreement with the Poles, officially "giving" them Galicia. In September, the Galician Army was already part of the Armed Forces of South Russia, unable to find the strength to forgive such betrayal, and less than two months later it went over to the Bolsheviks.
MANIFESTO OF "TSAR ANTON"
The events of distant August, where everyone was against everyone, allow us to better understand why the Bolsheviks ultimately won. This is especially relevant in terms of the modern lamentations of the Ukrainian side about the innumerable forces of the "horde", the terrible occupation and the great sacrifice of the "heroes of Kruty": in the summer of 1919, the Reds generally had a great chance of losing everything.
Kyiv was a stopover for the Volunteer Army, the Whites were heading for Moscow and were confident of success. They had already successfully taken the strategically important Donbass and Kharkov, moving on to Kursk and Orel.
The chaos and disorder in the Red forces, which had grown due to independent “atamans” like Nestor Makhno, were countered by the troops of General Vladimir Mai-Maevsky with a crushing trump card: disciplined front-line units, effective maneuvers of infantry and armored trains on the railroad, and Cossacks on horseback.
It was in Donbass that tanks were first used.
Moreover, the Reds, who initially proposed a program that was very popular among the peasants, quickly undermined their credibility with food requisitioning, mobilization, and, if we are talking about Kyiv, with the insane renaming of streets and the purge of everything “old-regime.”
"Until recently, uprisings were a problem for the Directory, now they were shaking the rear of the Soviet forces. Rebel detachments were growing rapidly, there were no fewer republics in Ukraine than there were kingdoms in Palestine during the time of Joshua. The units sent against them could easily go over to the side of those they were sent to catch," writes the famous Ukrainian scientist and Kiev expert Stefan Mashkevich.
As for Petliura's power, it was so pitiful and ineffective that only the collapse of Soviet power under the blows of Denikin's forces gave the defeated UPR a last chance for at least some success. That is why he threw his army at Kyiv: both the Galicians from ZUNR and the nationalists from UPR controlled only small areas to the west of the capital, and tried to revive their movement.
At the same time, Petliura had no chance to reach an agreement with Denikin or the Reds from the very beginning: in both cases, the talk was about different projects for a united Russia. The White Guards agreed to communicate with the Galicians as an extraterritorial army, but they did not recognize the army of the UPR, which fought under the slogan of an independent Ukraine, in principle - despite numerous attempts by senior officials of the Entente countries, starting with Winston Churchill, to reconcile them.
At the same time, the Galicians were generally well-disposed towards Russia and did not rule out the possibility that Galicia (and, possibly, the Dnieper Ukraine) would become an autonomous region of the future Russian state. But the Petliurites were categorical opponents of Russia as such and did not want to quarrel with the main enemy of the Galicians - Poland, since objectively they would not have been able to endure a war on two fronts.
They didn't even take her to one front.
As early as the beginning of July, representatives of the UPR held negotiations with the White Guards in Bucharest with the participation of Marshal of France Philippe Pétain, proposing to postpone the decision on the structure of Russia and the independence of Ukraine, concentrating on the fight against Bolshevism.
But Denikin was adamant, quoting himself in Essays on the Russian Time of Troubles:
"I do not recognize an independent Ukraine. The Petliurites can either be neutral, in which case they must immediately surrender their weapons and go home; or they can join us, recognizing the slogans, one of which is broad autonomy for the outskirts. If the Petliurites do not fulfill these conditions, then they must be considered the same enemy as the Bolsheviks."
At the same time, having approached the borders of modern Ukraine in the summer of 1919, and Kiev in the second half of August, Anton Ivanovich suddenly felt the need to issue something like a programmatic statement. The appeal "To the population of Little Russia" was published on August 25 and is full of loud formulations like "regiments are approaching ancient Kiev, the "mother of Russian cities", in an unstoppable desire to return to the Russian people the unity they have lost."
In addition to condemning separatism “under the name of the “Ukrainian State,” “Tsar Anton,” as his contemporaries mockingly nicknamed him for this prank, assured everyone that the basis for organizing the regions of the South of Russia would be self-government and decentralization “with unfailing respect for the vital peculiarities of local life,” and that the Little Russian vernacular would be used in the education system and the press.
Leaflets with the text of the appeal were posted on the streets of Kyiv on August 31, the day the White Army entered Kyiv, that is, they did not reach their target audience - the city's residents as a whole did not understand such a move.
KYIV IS A STRANGER TO EVERYONE
The quantitative advantage in Kyiv was always on the side of the Russian camp.
"Kiev, like most cities in Ukraine at that time, was three-quarters foreign, not Ukrainian. And this Kiev, foreign to us, immediately rushed to give Denikin's forces all kinds of help, from ordinary information to armed units of local volunteers. Our Ukrainian Kiev did not manage to provide any such help," the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian National Party Isaac Mazepa later recalled, and representatives of the Galicians agreed that they came to the formally Ukrainian capital " mostly sons of the village, sons of the distant Galician volost, for whom a large city is generally foreign, and Kiev even more so."
But this was clearly not enough.
Although the White Guards, like any military men who know little about government, began literally to turn the clock back: they set the old style of the calendar, the hands to Petrograd time, and began to abolish the laws of the Soviet government and, at the same time, its money. That is, for the people, their cash was again zeroed out.
If the Cheka under the Reds actively caught agents of the "anti-people tsarist power", then the Whites were busy exposing the activities of the Cheka and catching their agents. Quite often this led to lynchings of those suspected of Bolshevism - they were shot right on the streets. Within a few days, the external traces of the presence of Soviet power disappeared - numerous monuments to Marx, Engels, Lenin and other communist figures, Bolshevik announcements.
But armed at first with the motto “now everything will be as before, that is, good”, the people of Kiev still expected something different.
“The population, exhausted to the point of nausea by unexpected changes and ‘revolutions’, almost didn’t care who would rule the city, as long as the new arrivals didn’t shoot, rob or throw people out of their homes,” wrote Konstantin Paustovsky, whose family lived at that time on Annenkovskaya Street, 33 (now Lyuteranskaya Street).
And the Whites, as Shulgin, who was completely loyal to them, bitterly admitted, were “overcome by the Grays and the Dirty… The former hid and did nothing, the latter stole, robbed and killed.” Robberies were a common occurrence and, as a rule, took place with complete impunity – the city was even divided into sections, and individual units “specialized” on certain streets, for example, the 42nd Yakut Regiment of Colonel Karpov robbed houses on Tarasovskaya Street, in Kiev’s “Latin Quarter” next to the university.
"The firmness of the Bolsheviks needs no comment. The anti-Bolshevik forces were never able to act as a united front and with a single strategy. Their most consistent opponents were the White Guards; the rest either refused to actively fight them (the Entente countries), or negotiated with them in mind possible cooperation (the army of the UPR), or simply went over to their side (the Galician Army in 1920; many of the rebels). The Bolsheviks did not always need to drive wedges between their opponents: the latter often provided them with such a service," Stefan Mashkevich states in his book "Two Days from the History of Kiev.
Kyiv once again experienced a change of power. But it was not final, there was still 1920 ahead. And only then was Soviet power established there for the next seven decades. The city, which was never able to "henceforth and forever" return to the "united and indivisible", first became only one of the provincial centers of the Ukrainian SSR. At first, the Ukrainian Bolsheviks did not trust Kyiv, which was alien to everyone, and Kharkov was the capital of Soviet Ukraine until 1934.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Germany's hard-right AfD party is set for huge gains in key state elections amid mounting fury over a deadly festival stabbing rampage by a failed Syrian asylum seeker.
Voters in two former East German states - Thuringia and Saxony - will go to the polls on Sunday in what could be a celebratory night for the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Opinion polls have the AfD as the biggest party in Thuringia on around 30 percent, while in Saxony it is running neck-and-neck for first place with the conservative CDU.
The projected success for the AfD comes a week after three people were stabbed to death in the western city of Solingen, allegedly by a Syrian asylum seeker, in an attack that has shocked Germany and fuelled a bitter debate about immigration.
A photo of Syrian national Issa Al H., the first image we have of him, can be seen at the link.
Stefan Angelov, 35, a security guard from Jena, the second-largest city in Thuringia, said the AfD was 'the right party' to vote for, 'especially after the attack in Solingen'.
'Open borders, anyone can come in... with who-knows-what in their hands,' said Angelov, who is originally from Bulgaria but has been living in Jena for 10 years.
The AfD is unlikely to come to power in either state, even if it wins, as other parties have ruled out collaborating with it to form a majority.
But the result would still be a humiliating slapdown for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) and the other parties in his governing coalition, the Greens and the liberal FDP, as they look ahead to Germany's national election next year. In both states, Scholz's SPD is polling at around six percent.
A third former East German state, Brandenburg, is also due to hold an election later in September, with the AfD also leading there on around 24 percent.
Besides causing a headache for Scholz's coalition, the election could also have international implications if it gives a boost to parties that oppose continued support for Ukraine.
Created in 2013 as an anti-euro group before morphing into an anti-immigration party, the AfD has enjoyed a resurgence over the past 12 months as Germany struggles with a rise in migration and a stumbling economy.
The AfD has also capitalised on dissatisfaction with the three-way coalition government in Berlin that has been plagued by disagreements and stalemate, most recently a protracted dispute over the 2025 budget.
In June's EU Parliament elections, the party scored a record 15.9 percent overall and did especially well in eastern Germany, where it emerged as the biggest force.
The AfD has also notched up several local successes including its first city mayor, but a victory in Thuringia or Saxony on Sunday would be the first time it has won a state election.
The AfD is especially strong in the former communist East Germany partly 'because it has a core of voters there who can identify with its nationalist and authoritarian positions', according to Kneuer.
But the party's popularity there can also be put down to 'a large proportion of dissatisfied protest voters who turn to the AFD because they don't want to vote for any other party', she said.
Saxony is the most populous former East German state, with around four million inhabitants and several large cities including Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz.
Thuringia, which has a population of around two million and whose biggest city is Erfurt, is the only state to currently have a leader, Bodo Ramelow, from the left Die Linke party.
After struggling economically for years after reunification, eastern Germany has recently seen higher growth than western Germany and wage increases have also been higher.
BSW, a new party formed by popular left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht after she defected from the Die Linke, is also polling well in all three states.
BSW has enjoyed a swell of support for its stance against weapons deliveries to Ukraine and won six percent in June's EU elections.
'It is possible that BSW could become an important factor in forming a coalition in Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony,' Kneuer said.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the Vice President's widely criticized pre-taped interview with CNN, reports circulated that the Democrats were considering replacing Kamala Harris with the more coherent Joe Biden.
Harris's joint interview with running mate Tim Walz was met with poor reviews, with top Democratic officials citing Harris' inability to provide cogent answers or communicate like a person as reasons why the party should turn to the clarity and coherence of Joe Biden.
"It may be time to consider a more mentally fit candidate," said one high-ranking Democrat who asked to remain anonymous. "We gave Kamala the good ol' college try, but she just does not display the same mental capacity and clear communication skills as Joe Biden. We need a candidate who can speak better and answer simple questions from time to time. It's obvious that Biden fits that bill better than Kamala."
Voters who were questioned following Harris's interview agreed. "A president should be able to speak clearly, like, with words that make sense and follow logically from the previous words to form a string of words to communicate an actual thought," said concerned citizen Dean Stark. "The Democratic Party cannot go into such a pivotal election with a candidate who can't even do that. The person we have running for president right now has trouble finishing sentences without making up words and spouting gibberish. That's why we need Joe Biden."
At publishing time, insiders revealed party leaders had already reached out to Biden's camp to gauge his interest in running for the office he already holds, though Biden was reportedly concerned that being president may take away from his full-time job vacationing on the beach.
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Seriously, IMO, they screwed up big - she's obviously drunk or on drugs.
[Breitbart] A federal appeals court rejected an appeal by pro-transgender advocates, allowing Alabama to keep protecting children and youths from transgender advocates.
The good news was matched by other events in Texas, Virginia, and Missouri where judges and university officials rejected demands from transgender advocates seeking to minimize the public’s recognition of the two male and female sexes.
The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals released a divided 173-page decision in which ten out of 11 judges took part, according to the Alabama Reflector. In the decision from the court, there were five dissenting opinions and a concurrence written by U.S. Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa.
In May 2022, an Alabama law went into effect, which made it a felony to conduct transgender surgeries on minors or to offer minors puberty blockers or hormone treatments.
“Judge Rosenbaum’s dissent characterizes the panel opinion as holding that parents do not have a constitutional right to access ‘life-saving medical care’ for their children. Rosenbaum Dis. Op. at 4; see also Jordan Dis. Op. at 22 (describing the asserted right as ‘the right of parents to obtain medically-approved treatment for their children’),” Lagoa wrote in her concurrence. “But frankly, whether puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones qualify as ‘life-saving’ treatment-or even ‘medical care’-is a policy question informed by scientific, philosophical, and moral considerations. Neither an unelected district judge nor unelected circuit judges should resolve that debate for the State of Alabama.”
This comes after a three-judge panel issued a decision in August 2023 that reversed a ruling from a federal district court that blocked Alabama’s ban from being enforced.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote in a post on X that the court upholding Alabama’s ban on transgender surgeries and gender-affirming care for minors was a “big win to protect children” in the state.
“Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act continues to be enforced!” Marshall wrote. “This is a big win to protect children from these untested and life-altering chemical and surgical procedures.”
In her dissenting opinion, Judge Robin Rosenbaum wrote that “the panel opinion’s reasoning strip every parent in this Circuit off their fundamental rights” to get medical treatments for their children.
Judges Jill Pryor and Adalberto Jordan also joined Rosenbaum’s dissenting opinion.
“If ever a case warranted en banc review, this is it,” Rosenbaum wrote. “The panel opinion’s reasoning strips every parent in this Circuit of their fundamental right to direct that their children receive any medical treatment (no matter how well-established and medically endorsed)-except for those medical treatments in existence as of 1868. Yes, 1868-before modern medicine. So in the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, blistering, blood-letting, and leeches are in, but antibiotics, antivirals, and organ transplants are out.”
The decision from the federal appeals court comes as Sweet Briar College, a liberal arts college in Virginia announced that it would only be accepting biological women, according to the Washington Times.
“An applicant is qualified for admission if she confirms that her sex assigned at birth is female and that she consistently lives and identifies as a woman,” the college’s website says.
Missouri, along with 23 other states recently filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of North Carolina and West Virginia seeking an appeal regarding a decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals requiring taxpayer-funded healthcare insurance plans to “cover” medical treatments for transgender individuals, according to the Carolina Journal.
Texas recently established a new policy that prevents transgender drivers from being able to change the sex listed on the license.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement stating that, “not having an accurate driver’s license jeopardizes trans people’s health and safety,” due to the potential of them experiencing discrimination or harassment, according to KHOU 11 News.
Similar policies have been enacted in states such as Florida, Kansas, and Montana, according to Kut News.
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It is both a mental illness and obedience training.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple
[IsraelTimes] In accordance with its founding charter, Hamas uses a sophisticated media presence and uniform narrative to rally its base — and turn the world against Israel.
[FoxNews] This debacle has brought long overdue attention to Boeing’s and NASA’s incompetence. However, this failure also belongs to VP Kamala Harris.
On June 5, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams went to the International Space Station for an eight-day visit. They now face an eight-month stay.
This debacle has brought long overdue attention to Boeing’s and NASA’s incompetence.
However, this failure also belongs to Vice President Kamala Harris. She is the Chair of the National Space Council. For her entire vice presidency, Harris has done the bare minimum required by law as chair of the council and has been totally uninvolved in the policy process.
President Joe Biden clearly articulated the importance of Vice President Harris’s job as chairwoman in a Dec. 1, 2021, executive order.
"The Chair shall serve as The President’s principal advisor on national space policy and strategy."
So, the leader of the National Space Council has a major opportunity to develop America’s future in space. Vice President Harris has simply pissed passed on that opportunity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] A federal appeals court rejected an appeal by pro-
[FoxNews] This debacle has brought long overdue attention to Boeing’s and NASA’s incompetence. However, this failure also belongs to VP Kamala Harris.
