You know, Owlbread, I think you might actually be an upper-class noble twat. After all, it's people like these that have first popularised the idea of "Russians are slaves and cattle."
I'm not saying they're cattle and slaves, I'm just saying that it seems to me (again, this is just my perception, I may be totally wrong) that on a deep, cultural level Russians don't have the same idea of personal independence that Ukrainians apparently have. Maybe it's a Cossack thing or something I don't know. That lack of personal or mental independence/freedom is what allowed upper-class noble twats to exploit Russians for so long, then so-called Communist tyrants in the era of the USSR and now gangsters.
Even when Russians tried to change the order and tried to stop the exploitation, the need for hierarchy and the dominant leader was so ingrained that every revolution changed very little about the fundamental organisation of things; only how control is exerted over people.
And Makno's organisation was not "end-state communism" in the slightest, it was an ordinary national resistance movement.
A national resistance movement that somehow achieved something that looked an awful lot like "Communism". I think from what I can tell they achieved even more than the Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War.
Knit tie, you are getting dangerously close to starting a flame war (again), be careful with such statements.
You don't have to worry about me Guardian, water off a duck's back and all that.