1 janv. 1905 - It is true that unscrupulous bandits fronted as insurgents to obtain money for themsleves. But proper Mks and Kontrraz never did this - to the point that they had dirty pants with holes!

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It was undoubtedly true that, as in other revolutionary organiza-
tions, criminals had found a place in the anarchist underground
and used ex's as a means of personal enrichment. Such practices,
for example, flourished from the summer of 1905 on. “Ideologi-
cal" anarchist organizations spent money from ex's on dynamite,
leaflets and newspapers. But there were also "spontaneous" groups
which cloaked themselves in anarchist slogans but carried out ex's
for personal gain. They bore appropriate names: “Black Mask”, “The Extortionists, "The Racketeers, etc. In respect to the Makhnovist
Kontrrazvedka there are no proven cases of such activity. On the
contrary, according to the testimony of M. Tyamin there was the
case of P. Sobolev, a member of the Kontrrazvedka and a leader of
the combat group "The Anarchists of the Underground”. Although
he was holding several hundred thousand rubles obtained by ex's,
Sobolev refused to spend 1,000 rubles on a pair of pants. As Tyamin
wrote, "so he died in dirty old army trousers".

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