lodilefty wrote:Green Loyalty in Petrograd is WAD in that the Regional Decisions result in Loyalty shifts away from the controlling faction.
While the shift to Greens may not be Historical [I am, after all, not a Russian historian], the Greens are defined in the setup as the primary non-RED faction. Thus the shift goes to them...
If not Green, then Who?
Like in the last patch, where big cities turn Anarchist instead of turning Green.
There were many anarchist clubs in towns, that bolsheviks destroyed, but while read ana propaganda was slowed down, oral one could continue, and could be difficult to be spotted, as bolsheviks had copied it to seem radical and rob their benefits (soviets let being united in a parliament by bolsheviks who suddenly talked like anarchists and seemed love the soviets they at least distrust before: so, soviets no longer decide, but their 'representatives' in the bolshevik controled parliament, like in the bourgeois parliament bolsheviks dreamed in vain being elected before spitting on like the anarchists)
In countryside, Left-SR (more both intellectuals and violent than the anarchists) often could help provoking Green uprising, but didn't succeeded in controling them (Right-SR, the main SR party, didn't want to help mujiks bolsheviks, but their Komuch wanted them in their own army against bolsheviks..).
Makhno (who already had practiced at home, learnt anarchist theories in a small jail 'club') succeeded, as he was firstly mujik, in somewhat controling what could have been just-Green if leaded by the common antisemits (I don't say Makhno was one).
When Kropotkin died in 1921 anarchists were shot by the bolsheviks since 2 years, but thousands people who all could be at least arrested the next day (Lenin agreed the processions* day, not anarchy), demonstrated in towns, many with black flags and anti-bolshevik slogans.
(* for genius Lenin had said Kropotkin was his friend: Lenin had tried to continue the rob of anarchist propaganda by letting Kropotkin alone write under the control of bolshevik printing house -Kropotkin had rejected the offer).