19 mai 1919 - makhnovist brigade reforms into 1st insurgent division. NM resigns to protect movement. staff arrested and eventually shot. NM and sotnia escape.

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By agreement with the staff of the 2nd Army of the RKKA, on
May 16,1919, the Makhnovist VRS announced the reformation of
its brigade into the 1" Insurgent Division. At that time the conflict
of Makhno with the Red command developed into naked repression
against the Makhnovists. In order to remove the source of friction
and at the same time avoid exposing the Front, Makhno resigned
from the post of brigade commander and headed for Alexandrovsk
with a detachment of 300 cavalry and 500 infantry. But the machin-
ery of repression had been set in motion: Voroshilov arrested the
staff of the Insurgent Division and later they were shot. Naturally the
Division's Kontrrazvedka also collapsed. It had good reason to fear
the repression of the Reds as it had been responsible for carrying out
a purge of the RKKA commissars from the Makhnovist brigades.
Some of the Kontrrazvedka agents - especially the Gulyaipolyans
- stuck with the Batko.

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