And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Pyotr Wrangel, The Black Baron, seen here as the commander of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War.
Pity the White Army lost to the Bolsheviks. The world may have been a much different (and possibly better) place. Peter von Wrangel was highly regarded.
Pity the White Army lost to the Bolsheviks. The world may have been a much different (and possibly better) place. Peter von Wrangel was highly regarded.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who that kids was on the left...
ReplyDeleteHe kind of looks like Max von Sydow.
ReplyDeleteFinished this week Richard Pipes Russian Revolution, didn't get into the Civil War much, but looking for a book continuing or going backward, not sure
ReplyDeleteThe blade at his waist appears to be a qama.
ReplyDeleteInteresting man, survived the Russian Civil war emigrated to Serbia then Belgium
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