Ataman could not plan a good operation.
Odessa operation Ataman Grigoriev; Uprising in the Ukraine.
Ataman"- grapes for gourmets and leaders.
Ataman boastfully reports that under him goes 100 thousand army.
December 13 after an agreement with the German command Ataman took Nikolaev.
Ataman vowed to clear Odessa from the bandits, and Jap"put up against the wall.".
Politically, the Ataman and his fighters sympathized with the Ukrainian Left Social Revolutionaries(Borobists)
and the nationalists.
A difficult situation was in the rear of the Reds- the Ataman Grigoriev's rebellion began.
From the detachment of Ataman Grigoriev, the 1 Brigade was formed(the
Makhnovists entered the 3 Brigade).
Ban Ataman felt like a"major political figure"
and spoke to Kiev in the language of ultimatums.
Ataman and his charges are riding on a crazy train
smashing everything on its way, which is scary.
Antonov-Ovseenko again persuaded the Ataman to start a campaign in Europe, predicted to him"the glory of Suvorov.".
Ban Ataman felt like a"major political figure"
and began to talk to Kiev in the language of ultimatums.
The leader there was the Ataman Kalmykov, an outspoken thug who ignored Kolchak's government
and was oriented toward Japan.
So, on November 27, 1918, the Ataman Makhno occupied the Gulyai-field and drove the Germans out of the area.
Skachko, seeing a complete anarchy in parts of the
Grigorievka, suggested liquidating the brigade headquarters, and shifting the Ataman himself.
Years ago, at the end of May 1919, a major uprising of Ataman Grigoriev was crushed in Little Russia.
And in January, 1919, when the war began with Soviet Russia, the military dictatorship was framed-
Petlura was appointed chief Ataman.
A meeting took place between Bullet and General Dragomirov on the one hand,
and Don Ataman Krasnov and General Denisov on the other.
Ataman announced the creation of an army of independent Soviet Ukraine
and had the support of other rebel leaders Struk, Satan and Angel.
The troops of the Ataman were"semi-red"; if the campaign was unsuccessful,
it was possible to write off military operations on the left Social Revolutionaries.
The directory could not fight with the Ataman, therefore,
in order to“calm it down,” they were given the post of commissioner of Alexandria district.
Formally, remaining in the"right" positions, the Ataman conspires with the"left"-
a party of Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries Borotbists, who feuded Petlyura and sympathized with the Bolsheviks.
Petliurovtsy was saved from
total annihilation only by the fact that in May Ataman Grigoriev(against the Bolsheviks)
revolted, and the Poles began to fight the Reds.
Krasnov tried to use the technique, which had already helped him earlier, said
that he was distrustful of himself, therefore he refused the post of Ataman.
For example, they“forgot” that Ataman Pyotr Krasnov,
the future Nazi criminal, on the Don, deprived almost all of the Cossacks(their families, respectively) who fought or sympathized with the Reds.
At the end of 1918, his gangs controlled almost the entire Kherson region,
but the emergence of the interventionists and the compromising position of Kiev deprived the Ataman of a fat piece.