Stateless Anarchy : Махновщина 1918-1921 … Makhnovshchina, Ukraine 🇺🇦

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This part of the World has a very long history of Freedom Fighters.

100 year old Anarchists and ghosts will never ever surrender their Land.

Махновщина 🇺🇦

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… existed from 1918 to 1921

The territory of the Makhnovshchina, where an attempt was made to form a stateless, anarchist society and its approximated location (in red) was in part of the territory of modern Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.

The Makhnovshchina (Ukrainian: Махновщина, romanized: Makhnovshchyna) was an attempt to form a stateless anarchist society in parts of Ukraine during the Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It existed from 1918 to 1921, during which time free soviets and libertarian communes operated under the protection of Nestor Makhno's Revolutionary Insurgent Army. The area had a population of around seven million.

The Makhnovshchina was established with the capture of Huliaipole by Makhno's forces on 27 November 1918. An insurgent staff was set up in the city, which became the territory's de facto capital. Russian forces of the White movement, under Anton Denikin, occupied part of the region and formed a temporary government of Southern Russia in March 1920, resulting in the de facto capital being briefly moved to Katerynoslav (modern-day Dnipro). In late March 1920, Denikin's forces retreated from the area, having been driven out by the Red Army in cooperation with Makhno's forces, whose units conducted guerrilla warfare behind Denikin's lines. The Makhnovshchina was disestablished on 28 August 1921, when a badly wounded Makhno and 77 of his men escaped through Romania after several high-ranking officials were executed by Bolshevik forces. Remnants of the Black Army continued to fight until late 1922.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina

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The Black Army

The roots of militant anarchism in Ukraine can be traced back to the activities of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who established their own "free territory" in the Wild Fields, where they practiced a decentralized, democratic and egalitarian mode of organization.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina

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