13 sept. 1920 - Belash's memoir (written under ussr watch) states the Makhnovists never made attempts on Bolshevik leadership lives, even after assassins deployed to kill their leadership - although it was proposed.

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In telling about the dispatch of terrorists by the Cheka to liquidate
Makhno in the summer of 1920, Belash insisted that the Makhnovists, due to ideological considerations, rejected similar terrorist
acts against the leaders of their opponents. "We believed in the free
competition of ideas and didn't attempt the assassination of senior
officials. Such a policy was never adopted although there were certainly proposals to do so." However he was writing this in the
USSR under the supervision of the GPU and was compelled to censor his work. That's why we think the scene with Nikiforovas gang
in June 1919 is described by Belash as if Makhno wanted nothing to
do with terrorism. Relative to the situation in the autumn of 1919,
Belash directly states that the Military Section was occupied with
"high-level intelligence work as well as terror and expropriation”
In other words, the Makhnovist agent network committed terrorist
acts as a minimum against Denikinist officers and officials.

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