The Black Baron's Last Stand: Wrangel in Crimea

In the winter of 1920, the Russian Civil War was all but lost for the Whites. But one man refused to give up: Baron Pyotr Wrangel, a dashing cavalry commander who took the last remnants of the anti-Bolshevik forces and turned Crimea into a fortress. From his base in Sevastopol, Wrangel instituted land reforms, hoping to win peasant support, and launched a desperate offensive to break out. This episode tells the story of Wrangel's improbable stand, the brutal assault across the Sivash lagoons by Mikhail Tukhachevsky's Red Army, and the final evacuation of 145,000 soldiers and civilians from the Crimean coast. It's a tale of courage, tragedy, and the end of an era.

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