That’s right, on November 11 the people we’ve come to know as the usual suspects in these matters celebrate … the Bolshevik Revolution that overthrew the liberal government of Russia—Red October! We celebrate in the usual manner, with a faked photo:
The next color revolution? I suggest the Grey Revolution—an even, blah color, indicative of the true goal of Wokism, a state of stasis:
But moving on to Fallujah, er, Kherson, Geroman has a smart twitter thread:
RF sources on the ground reported:
"We are out - the two bridges were blown up by us after all our troops crossed it."
(0505h)
The speed of that operation tells me it was all planed long before the announcement...
And after we did not see any fight - it is now also clear it was a sort of an agreement on a technical level between RF and AFU as well. (besides secret talks with their masters in DC).
RF withdrew its forces from the right bank of the Dnieper River. During the maneuver, the group of troops, using pontoon bridges, completed the crossing of units and civilians to the left bank.
In just a few days, about 40,000 Russian servicemen left the right bank.
I think it is more near 20k by the way...
Another source:
RF army withdrew forces from the right bank of the Dnieper River
During the maneuver, RF grouping of troops, using pontoon bridges, completed the crossing of units and civilians to the left bank, more than 20,000 Russian servicemen left the right bank. So not 40k.
My suspicion is that the biggest factor here was the danger that the US would manage to blow the massive Kakhovka Dam. The resulting flood would look like this, killing and destroying everything in its path, and isolating Russian troops on the west bank:
And then there’s this creative suggestion:
Addendum from Moon of Alabama. The title of the post, Si tacuisses, means, If you had just kept your mouth shut (no one would have known how stupid you are):
Russian retreat from Kherson city sets stage for more hard combat
Washington Post - Nov 10, 2022
U.S. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday night that 20,000 to 30,000 Russian forces remained on the western bank of the river and that it would take time for them to withdraw. But he, too, saw “initial indicators” that the retreat was underway, he said.
“This won’t take them a day or two,” Milley said, speaking at an event at the Economic Club of New York. “This is going to take them days and maybe even weeks to pull those forces south of that river.”
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The Ministry of Defense reported on the completion of the withdrawal of troops from Kherson
Kommersant (machine translation) - Nov 11, 2022
One of the real tragedies of the November Revolution (for those of us that refuse to call it by its Julian Calendar name) was that one of its chief architects, General Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937)--who put Lenin on the sealed train from Switzerland to Finland Station--never lived to see the Red Army that he effectively helped birth storm his native Posen, in Pomerania. And proceed to then ethnically cleanse all the Germans there, while abolishing both the Province of Posen and the State of Prussia, while giving all of Ludenforff's ancestral lands to the Poles. Poles who in turn had been exported from their ancestral lands in Galicia, that was now given to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. If I had any literary talent, I would rewrite Dante and explore where the protagonists in this Revolution are currently residing. Is the demonic Lenin residing in a circle of the Inferno closer to the great winged beast Satan, or are the cynical German staff officers who put him on the train?
Thanks for reminding us that today is the anniversary of The Great October Debacle. It’s more than a little annoying to me that people assume that Lenin toppled the Tsar. As you point out, he overthrew a government of feckless liberals who refused to take Russia out of the war despite the fact that it was destroying the country (sound familiar?). Indeed, I would argue that Nicholas was brought down by that same war, without which Russia would never have gone Red. As for the Bolsheviks “masquerading as socialists” — I’d say Lenin had as much right (or more) to claim Marx as his intellectual progenitor as did the so-called “Socialist Democrats” of his day.