The ones I have already corrected you on, such as the Black Army “overperforming”. It performed as well as any guerilla group under circumstances favorable to guerillas of the time, i.e. with sufficient support from the peasantry. Given how dramatically it ultimately failed, and its many faults, this is really a romantic characterization that doesn’t do justice to anyone involved. Did they really overperform? How well “should” they have performed? Such ahistorical romantic characterizations, along with backstabbing narratives, are the main theme of “anti-Marxist” mythologies among self-proclaimed Western anarchists.

This is the problem with internet Bolsheviks you envision yourself as Central Committe members in 1949 at the height of the glory of the Soviet Union, at the height of being able to plug your ears because for once the people have seen that the ends justified the means but only temporarily.

I was born in the Soviet Union. My great grandparents and grandparents generation were the generations that was made whole on the Bolshevik promises. My grandparents not so much by the time they were 25 thanks Kruschev. By the time my parents generation was born it was obvious they were locked into a future that would be worse for their children. And the party did nothing, the party would try to ride this out through the classic democratic centralism and ends justify the means. They plugged their fucking ears.

Does that sound familiar to a party who considers themselves “the good guys” who has been plugging their ears to the needs of the working class? Who has consistently been berating the people, that its the people who failed them and not the party that could fail. A party that has failed to achieve any significant long term wins for the people in 20+ years? A party that has completely failed for generations because its refusal to read the actual political circumstances on the ground?

In a bizzaro universe you are acting like a Fedayeen for the Democratic Party who lives overseas. You’re acting like my parents generation, the jeans generation of the Soviet Union. Who think that America is paved with gold, and jeans, and rock and roll music. A reality that soon was snuffed out for the majority of them who could immigrate. They jumped from a crumbling empire that ultimately did not listen to its own people to another crumbling empire that ultimately did not listen to its own people.

In short you can take your little “Western anarchist” slurring and shove it. You’re filling in all of the gaps with your imagination. I have real life experience of the Soviet Union. I learned Soviet History through out my whole life on both sides of the wall. I’ve stood in bread lines comrade, have you? I had extended family who were party members, did you? You can post all you want, but the reality is that the majority of online Bolsheviks would have been anti-Bolshevik immediately after graduating high school, because their principal would have hated their annoying ass, and he was a party member, and he could decide if your career trajectory was to go test into an institute or to work the mines or the fields or the factories.

Listen the Soviet Union warts and all helped a lot of people, it also hurt a lot of people, it was a country, like every country it has problems and it does bad shit and it doesn’t listen to its people. It’s not a magical wonderland. You would not have been a Central Committee member, you’re too gullible. Your clinging to Bolshevik party line history about the Civil war literally proves it.

First off the Blacks did overperform. The Whites were comprised of an officer class and trained traditional soldiers that were supplemented with commoners. The Reds were lead by one of the greatest logisticians to ever grace this fucking earth. Trotsky literally created a traditional European army out of the mud. He brought in specialists to head up officer classes. He was so good at recreating a traditional army that the commonors who made up the Red Army’s ranks fucking hated it. That’s what lead to the Military Oppositoon. What was the Black Army in comparison? Makhno gave guns to whoever showed up and said figure it out. And they fucking did.

Not only that but the Whites military capacity was literally donated from European powers. The Reds after throwing human waves at the Entente in the East literally just rolled through all those places. The Reds had a resource and supply chain victory over both Armies before the war began because they held Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Blacks in comparison had no capacity. Hualiapole was an industrial town sure, but for agricultural machinery.

The Black Army was the weakest in military strategists, trained soldiers, resources, industrial capacity, industrial knowledge, and geographically they were positioned between two opposing fronts. It’s fair to say they overperformed.

As far backstabbing narratives you plainly do not read history. The Reds broke the Starobilsk agreement. And this was after the Bolsheviks sold out Ukraine to the Central Powers, and the Maknovists took back Huliaipole.

On 14 November, the Bolshevik plans to liquidate the Makhnovshchina were finalised by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, with the approval of both Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.[114] The insurgents began reporting to their high command that Makhnovist supporters were being harassed and arrested on charges of banditry, as Mikhail Frunze began issuing orders to sweep Ukraine of all “bandits”.[115] On 17 November, Frunze issued Order 00106, which integrated the Insurgent Army into the 4th Army and transferred it to the Caucasian Front, although the order was never actually sent to insurgent command.[116] The following week, on 23 November, Frunze issued Order 00149 directly to Makhno, instructing the Insurgent Army to dissolve itself. He then issued Order 00155 to his own troops, instructing them to prepare to liquidate the Makhnovshchina within 48 hours.[117] Copies of these orders, in which Frunze declared the Makhnovists to be outlaws and ordered the concentration of Red Army forces in the Makhnovist region, were not sent to Huliaipole or the delegation in Kharkiv.[118] Vladimir Lenin also directly ordered Rakovsky to covertly initiate the criminalisation of the Ukrainian anarchist movement and to begin preparing charges against them.[119] That same day, spies from the 42nd Rifle Division were discovered attempting to locate the exact whereabouts of the insurgent command, with the purpose of aiding a Red Army offensive against the Makhnovshchina.[120] The delegation in Kharkiv responded by pressing Christian Rakovsky to arrest the 42nd Division’s commanding officers and prevent any Red Army incursion into insurgent-held territory, but the Soviet government claimed it had all been a misunderstanding and promised to investigate it

On 26 November, when the Makhnovist delegation inquired about the status of the investigation, they were arrested and sent to Moscow, where they were shot.[122] In total, 346 of the anarchists in Kharkiv were arrested,[123] with a number of prominent Makhnovists being charged with treason and shot by the Moscow Cheka,[124] and almost the entire membership of the Nabat being imprisoned.[125] Coordinated mass arrests of anarchists were also carried in the other major cities of southern Ukraine,[126] including Yelysavethrad.[127] The 42nd Division simultaneously led an attack against Huliaipole,[128] while the 2nd Cavalry Corps surrounded the town.[129] Makhno’s 150-strong Black Guard detachment quickly rallied the towns defense,[130] but decided to make their escape after spotting a break in the Red lines.[131] After the 3rd Makhnovist Regiment was captured by the 126th Division at Malaya Tokmacha, Makhno’s forces led a counterattack that pushed the Red forces back to Novouspenivka,[129] taking the opportunity to regroup the insurgent forces, with some Red soldiers even defecting to his ranks.[132] With 1,500 infantry and 1,000 cavalry at their disposal,[130] the insurgents retook Huliaipole from the 42nd Division after hours of fighting, capturing 6,000 Red soldiers in the town, 2,000 of whom also joined the Makhnovist ranks.[133] Among the captured soldiers, the Makhnovists found that they had been given orders to attack the Makhnovists as early as 16 November, a day before the Crimean campaign had even reached its conclusion.[119] Despite the victory, the Makhnovists were forced to abandon Huliaipole and retreat.[134]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik–Makhnovist_conflict#Surprise_attack

After the combined Bolshevik-Makhnovist forces defeated Pyotr Wrangel in Crimea and ended the Russian Civil War’s Southern Front, the Bolsheviks once again turned on their anarchist allies.[226] In late November 1920, the Red Army launched a surprise attack against the insurgent forces, putting the Makhnovist capital of Huliaipole under siege.[227] Caught unprepared, Makhno rallied together 150 Black Guards to defend the town. After spotting a gap in the Red lines, he escaped with his detachment[228] and led a counterattack that pushed the Red forces back to Novouspenivka. His own forces regrouped[229] and gained some defecting Red soldiers before recapturing Huliaipole a week later.[230] The Red Army command justified the attacks against the Makhnovists on grounds that Makhno had refused orders and intended to betray them,[231] though the Red Army had planned to break the alliance with the Makhnovists even before the beginning of the offensive against Wrangel’s White Army.[232]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno#Anti-Bolshevik_rebellion

Your desperate need to have everyone bend the knee to a Party reading of Bolshevik history is insane.