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Autumn 1920

Poland. Lenin urged German communist militant Clara Zetkin to “[…] not […] return to what happened in Poland. We counted on the Revolution in Poland, and it did not occur (it did not occur in Hungary, Italy, etc. Internationalism would later be greatly scaled down after these events). The peace achieved in the North allowed forces in the South to unite against Wrangel’s Crimea. In November 1920, Peter Nicolaievich Baron von Wrangel and 145,000 White Russians embarked from the ports of Crimea headed for Constantinople. The White Crusade was formally over in the West, and the long night of communism was falling on Russia, on the verge of becoming the Soviet Union. Many territorial problems with the nationalities of the Caucasus still remained, but the heart of Great Russia, the industrial engine, was in safe hands. For the rest, there was time. Taken one by one (enemies divided among themselves in everything), they were defeated and definitively annihilated.