Харитонов Александр - 00135 Суровые финские парни. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The Russian civil war is full of paradoxes. There is still no agreement even on the question of when it began and when it ended. It is not entirely clear who fought with whom: the Reds, the Whites, the Socialist Revolutionaries, anarchists of various directions, national separatists, not to mention complete exotics like Baron Ungern. Plus there were foreign interventionists, each of whom had their own goals. There were no fronts as such. Regiments were often smaller than a battalion in strength. Armies appeared out of nowhere. The commanders, when giving the order, were not sure how it would be carried out and whether it would be carried out at all, whether this or that unit would fight or rebel, or even go over to the enemy’s side. Brilliant offensives, inexplicably, ended in deafening disasters, and great victories arose almost out of nowhere.

Alexey Shcherbakov deliberately avoids a detailed description of countless battles and various statistical calculations. All this is already there. Its goal is to answer the question that still worries historians: why did the circumstances work out in favor of the Bolsheviks? And could the Civil War have ended in any other way?