dec 15, 1920 - through the whole revolution, but particularly this winter, mks captured sugar refineries. this scarce resource functioned as currency for partisans

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Another goal for the
Makhnovists was the seizure of sugar refineries, for example, the
Tsiglerovsky, Vengersky, and Glebensky plants. And later, in the
winter of 1920 - 1921, the insurgents seized 18 Ukrainian refineries
and requisitioned 17,000 poods of sugar. This commodity, scarce
in the villages, functioned as a currency used to pay the peasants
for supplies and horses.

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