2 nov 1919 - Aleksandrovsk Congress: resolution#3: special commission to "investigate and resolve grievances and misunderstandings with kontrraz". this is maybe toothless, but causes a pulling back

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Law and order in the rear areas was provided by the Kontrrazvedka
and probably, with the rare exception, by the military police of the
Makhnovists. But not one of the kontrrazvedniks was ever punished
for pillaging.
When the lawlessness of the Civil Section was submitted to review
by the Alexandrovsk Congress on November 2, 1919, Resolution
#3 set up a Special Commission to look into the activities of the
Kontrrazvedka. The members of this Commission were drawn from
the VRS, supplemented by representatives from worker and peasant
organizations. It's true the Commission was saddled with a vague
and rather feeble mandate: "the investigating and resolving of any
grievances and misunderstandings between the population and the
insurgents on the one hand, and the organs of the Kontrrazvedka
on the other"|106 Nevertheless, the Commission had the effect of
bringing the operations of the Kontrrazvedka more into the public
eye which naturally resulted in limiting its arbitrary actions.

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