20 Jul 1920 Jahr - Makhnovist raids accelerate through summer, with executions and expropriations becoming a cash cow for mks, who distributed winnings to peasantry - creating upsurge in recruitment. also: everyone was raiding everywhere at once - crazy case given in description

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According to Belash, the second raid through Yekaterinoslav,
Kharkov, and Poltava provinces "was characterized by the destruc-
tion of the state apparatus and terror directed against administra
tive officials (chairs of revkoms and komnezams, militia, Chekists,
punitive detachments, etc.) The Kontrrazvedka “purged” the
cities and villages occupied by the Makhnovists of Soviet and Party
workers. That's what took place, for example, in Izyum. Certainly,
as a result of the re-organization of the Insurgent Army, all sentences
passed through KAD. If the common goal of the summer raids of
1920 was to bring about an upsurge of the peasant movement out-
side the Makhnovist region, then the occupation of cities served
the purpose of replenishing the army treasury and capturing booty,
which the insurgents distributed to the peasants. This provided the
peasants with some measure of revenge for the violence done to
them by the prodrazverstka (food surplus appropriation system).
For example, a village in the Lugansk region in the space of one
week was raided by detachments from: the RKKA and the Labour
Army; the Metalworkers, Miners, and Soviet Employees' unions;
the Gubkom and the revkom; as well as individual factories and
production combines.

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