Catastrophe or inevitable outcome? Wrangles flight from Crimea.
On November 10, the Red Army heroically captured Perkop and wading through the "rotten sea" of Sivash, entered the Crimea - the last stronghold of the White Guard. The commander of the southern front, Feronza, who wanted to prevent further bloodshed, addressed Warangal via radiotelegraph with an offer to stop the resistance and a promise of amnesty for those who laid down their arms.
But Vrangel hid Fronze's proposal from his soldiers, with the aim of freeing up as many contingents as possible in order to later sell these soldiers to his allies as "an anti-Bolshevik army ready for the future or expeditionary forces for the needs of the Allies", that is, to ensure their lives from only a thousand of his loyalists, who paid for him alone.
On November 13, 1920, the evacuation of the bricks from the Crimea began. Today, some historians try to present this not as a shameful flight but as "the command of the White Army ready to accept defeat and fully aware of the need to leave Russia. "But the facts say otherwise.
Lieutenant General Slaschev described it this way:
"The evacuation took place in a nightmarish atmosphere of disorder and panic. ".
In Simferopol, a city congress was held to decide how to pledge the city's assets to bankers from France and England to obtain loans. They did not know that Rangel had announced the evacuation; Here's how one participant recalled it:
"We didn't know anything, and the Congress proceeded as usual. This tells us that not only were we not aware of the evacuation, which was in progress in Sevastopol that day. The local authorities didn't know either. At least the governor held a meeting about the bread crisis on the morning of the 11th...
How many trains were on the track? But no one knew which of them would leave and when. All the cars were loaded with soldiers. Our tickets, which V.A. Managed to get from the governor, didn't make an impression.