28 nov 1920 anni - 58000 red troops descend on the liberated zone, and insurgent Army break into several groups, out-manoeuvring over a vast area and panicking red troops and defeating them piecemeal - all informed and planned by kontrraz, who are darting about in clever and nifty disguises "The spies and scouts of the Makhnovist insurgents were found in each Village, on each khutor, darting here and there. Some were disguised as beggars, some as Red Army soldiers looking for their units, some as workers from a mine exchangin

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At the end of November 1920, two-thirds of the troops used in
the Crimean operation - 58,000 soldiers of the 2nd Cavalry and
3rd Infantry Armies - were thrown into the battle to liquidate the
Makhnovist insurgency. The Liberated Zone was literally inun-
dated with Red units. That's why the Insurgent Army broke up
into several groups and detachments which easily escaped from
their pursuers and proceeded to defeat them piecemeal, causing
severe panic among the Red Army soldiers. These operations took
place over a huge expanse from Yekaterinoslav to Berdyansk and
Maryupol. And, according to a participant - the Red commander
M. Ribakov - it was the skill of the Kontrrazvedka which was the
key element in the freedom of manoeuvre and consequent victories
of the Makhnovists.
"The spies and scouts of the Makhnovist insurgents were found in
each Village, on each khutor, darting here and there. Some were
disguised as beggars, some as Red Army soldiers looking for their
units, some as workers from a mine exchanging coal for bread,
some as remorseful deserters, some as ex-Communists, even some
as abandoned widows and orphans seeing "protection and justice",
etc.

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