oct 5, 1920 - "White Makhnovists" work so effectively behind enemy lines that the units eventually take orders directly from the Shtarm, for the first time fully feed and provisioned with arms and supplies by the whites. Azarov argues that this level of infiltration may have been entirely by design of the kontrraz, but even if a happy accident, it was a situation created and exploited by the genius of the kontrraz.

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The relevant order
relates to the beginning of October 1920 and graphically demon-
strates the results of the final stage of work by the Kontrrazvedka
in the "Makhnovist" auxiliary units of Wrangel.
It's probable that at the moment this order was issued, the Shtarm
already completely considered the White-Makhnovist units as their
own "fifth column" in Wrangel's rear area. Belash's words testify to
this: "The Soviet government acknowledged the presence of OUR (my
emphasis - V. A.) formations in Wrangel's rear area and counted on
their "favourable" participation."
.." Of course, this was dependent
on the "favourable participation
of Wrangel in the formation, arming,
and provisioning of these units. For the
Makhnovists, constantly experiencing an acute shortage of ammunition and equipment,
this was such a valuable windfall that one is compelled to imagine
a planned operation by the Shtarm as part of the revival of the
Insurgent Army (after its dissolution in the winter of 1919-1920)
by equipping its own units at the expense of the enemy. To reject
this logical version of events is only possible because of the absence
today of its evidentiary base.
But, even if one sticks to the view that the White-Makhnovists were
not a premeditated scheme of the Shtarm, it is necessary to concur
that, even if they were created by a deception, these detachments
were transformed into our formations of the SRPU(m) through
long, hard work by the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka in their Saturdayranks.

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