10 dic 1919 anni - The Polonsky Conspiracy - VRS launch investigation into conspiracy - and the reaction to it. Bolsheviks organise protests against NM's executions, but whites drive them all our before they happen. NM faces charger of extrajudicial killing, not that executions themselves. but through all this controversy Makhnovists allow free press and association for Bolsheviks.

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The reaction of the VRS was to create an investigatory commission
made up of Volin, Uralov, and Belash. According to Chetolin, the
Gubkom was preparing to retaliate by organizing protests by the
workers, but the Whites prevented this by driving Makhno out of
the city. He
The punishment of the conspirators lead to the worsening of
Makhno's relations not only with the army's Communists but with
the anarchists. In accordance with the limitations of the Batko's
powers, he did not have the right to shoot the Communists wiawwth
out the approval of the Gulai-Polye Union of Anarchists. This was
the accusation he had to face at the VRS, rather than the charge of
executing conspirators - a normal occurrence under wartime condi-
tions. For me the chief lesson to draw from this scandal is tolerance
of the Makhnovist political system for nonconformism. Neither the
Gubkom, nor rank-and-file Communists, were persecuted under
the suspicion of being involved in the conspiracy, and their news-
paper Zvesda continued to publish legally. For the Bolsheviks in an
analogous situation this would have been simply unthinkable. For
the Makhnovists the principles of freedom of speech and association
were more precious than the emotions evoked by the conspiracy.

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