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Do any of the sources call this an incidence of anarchist terrorism? I'm not seeing the terrorism angle. Conversely, do we have some kind of "ethnic cleansing" category that would be appropriate here? I can't find one as a subcat of Category:Mass murder in Ukraine. -- asilvering (talk) 00:28, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't find any specific mentions of "anarchist terrorism", but Patterson 2020, pp. 142–143 does describe the Makhnovist attacks against the Mennonites as terrorism:
Shchus was guilty of executing unarmed Germans which, according to Makhno’s policy, should have led to Shchus’s expulsion from the movement. Makhno went further and threatened Shchus with execution. In the account, we see a confrontation between Shchus’s terrorism and Makhno’s attempts to uphold some sort of guiding ethical code. Terror was victorious in the end as Makhno did not follow through with his threat. Amidst the contingencies of the civil war, could Makhno have afforded to execute a commander second in popularity only to himself? Regardless, justice for the colonists was absent, and it would be increasingly so as the civil war progressed.
While there is no clear evidence Makhno participated in or directly sanctioned the massacres in 1919, his movement’s behaviour was increasingly terroristic. Particularly, the activities of the kontrrazvedka, coupled with Makhno’s public declaration of war on the bourgeoisie, helped inflame existing tensions between peasants, Makhnovists and Mennonites. At the height of Makhno’s power in fall 1919, local peasant bands joined the Makhnovists to employ terror in pursuit of their own form of retribution. Embittered by land hunger and mindful of the colonists’ collaboration with the Austro-German occupation, these groups vented their rage.
This passage then goes on to discuss the massacres, so I think it fits the criteria for the category. Conversely, I can't find anything in the cited sources of this article that describe the massacre as "ethnic cleansing". --Grnrchst (talk) 09:31, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
