20 окт 1919 г. - 4th regional congress, issues statement demanding self-organizing, community justice system, feeding into a voluntary self-defense force. "leads to... the tyranny of momentary rage; lynch law" Bolsheviks denounce arbitrariness and lawlessness, citing brutality of Kontrrazvedka.

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On October 20, 1919, the 4" Regional Congress opened
in Alexandrovsk. At the Congress there was issued a draft "Declaration of the RPAU(m) about Free Soviets". In the article about
setting up a judicial process it was said: “A system of real justice
must be organized, but it must be a living, free, creative act of the
community. The self-defense of the population must be a matter of
free, living self-organization. And so any moribund forms of justice:
judicial institutions, revolutionary tribunals, codes of penalties,
police institutes, Chekists, prisons - all this must collapse under
its own weight."
On the one hand, this is an understandable protest of the anarchist-
Makhnovists against the punitive organs of the State. But on the
other hand, such a formulation of the question of justice leads to the
dictatorship of emotional impulses, the tyranny of momentary rage,
and opens wide the possibility of manipulation of “people's justice"
by special-interest groups. In other words, it leads to lynch law. Fur-
thermore, it allows any kind of abuse to flourish on the grounds of
the "just struggle with the exploiting classes”. Such precedents were
exploited in any way possible by Bolshevik propaganda, which spoke
of the arbitariness and lawlessness of the anarchists, citing the punitive activities of the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka. This propaganda
made use of Bolsheviks who had tangled with the Makhnovists as
well as Denikinists and former anarchists

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