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of the Red Army attacked the insurgent positions in
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also used their own variation of the black flag, which was emblazoned with the words: "Always with the oppressed against the oppressors". When one of the Union's members, Egor
Bondarenko, was due to be hanged, he prophesied that his comrade
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in 1919, the
Makhnovists were permitted to retain their black flags. They also made use of their official position within the Soviet power structure to commission their own red flags from the Bolshevik artist A. A. Briantsev.
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would "hoist again the black flag of
Anarchy that our enemies have snatched from us..." During his prison sentence, Makhno himself wrote poetry depicting a peasant revolution breaking out beneath the anarchist black flag.
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slogans, or the name of the insurgent unit they represented, embroidered in white on the black flags and in gold on the red flags. In his memoirs, the
Makhnovist chief-of-staff
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Obverse of the banner attributed to the
Makhnovists by Ostrovsky, denied by Makhno, which reads "Death to all who stand in the way of freedom for the working people"
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and the motto "Death to all who stand in the way of freedom for the working people" is often attributed to
Makhnovists, first in the Soviet Russian book
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has been flown at public events commemorating the
Makhnovshchina, depicting Makhno as a figure that fought for the country's independence.
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consisted of a number of different black and red flags, each emblazoned with anarchist and socialist slogans.
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kish, roughly translating to the "Dnipro Division," a unit which was under the command of
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wrote about a number of the slogans used on the flags of the Makhnovshchina, including:
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reported that after a priest had been captured by insurgents, they stripped him of his
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131:"Power generates parasites. Long live Anarchy!" (
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138:"All power to the soviets right now!" (Soviet)
237:captured one of the insurgents' black flags.
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