On this day in 1920 Karetnik and fellow RIAU officers went, with some reluctance, to a meeting with Red Army commander Mikhail Frunze who had ordered them place under a command of his army. On the way they were arrested and executed. Frunze was a successful Red Army commander who died in surgery in 1925.
The entire event also helps demonstrate the absolute mess that Russia had become in its late imperial stage. Anarchy was a theory that was never going to succeed because of its nature. Revolutionary socialist other than the Communist were never going to prevail in a struggle as they were insufficiently organized and single minded. The Whites couldn't succeed as they had no really strong central unity in fact or in theory. That doomed Russia to years of an alien whacky political theory that didn't match its nature or culture and which set Russia back so far in development that it is nowhere near overcoming it today.
The central feature of this rise of extremism had been a pre World War One governmental and economic system that was frozen in the distant past. With no outlet of any kind for a developing society, absurd economic and political theories festered underground. It's no accident that many of these theories were the same as ones that were then also circulating in Germany and Austria, which likewise had old order monarchical systems going into World War One.
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