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For the first time, the name "White Guard" was used in Russia for Finnish police detachments created in 1906 to fight the revolutionary movement. [9] Their members wore white bandages on their sleeves; however, this did not have a direct connection with the White Army during the Russian Civil War.
The longest surviving example of such insignia was the Russian military school in Tianjing (1940). During the WW2, attempts to restore the system of ranks of the Whites in pro-German collaborator formations were not successful; a known exception is the Russian Corps in Yugoslavia, which had ranks and insignia of the White movement in 1941-1942.
The White movement, [c] also known as the Whites, [d] was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the right-leaning and conservative officers of the Russian Empire, while the Bolsheviks who led the October Revolution in Russia, also known as the Reds, and their supporters, were regarded as the main enemies of the Whites.
White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik communist Russian political climate. Many White Russian émigrés participated in the White movement or ...
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (Russian: Клином красным бей белых!, Klinom krasnym bey belykh! ) is a 1919 lithographic Bolshevik propaganda poster by El Lissitzky . In the poster, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks , who are penetrating and defeating their opponents, the White movement , during the ...
The form of the "Z" symbol is a reproduction of the Latin letter Z, identical also to a capital Greek zeta. The "Z" symbol is used instead of the equivalent Cyrillic letter З (Ze) used in the Russian alphabet, which has been described as peculiar, considering the symbol's later association with Russian nationalism and pro-Putin politics. [27]
Military units and formations of White Russia (Russian Civil War) (2 C, 36 P) P. White movement people (7 C, 42 P) R. ... Pages in category "White movement"
During the Russian Civil War that followed the October Revolution of 1917, the anti-Soviet side was the White movement. During the Interwar period, some resistance movements, particularly in the 1920s, were cultivated by Polish intelligence in the form of the Promethean project.