White Terror describes the major events and trends during this dark era when Siberia became hell on earth. This book details precisely how nasty they were. Historians have long recognized that Ataman Semenov and company were a nasty lot. They undermined Admiral Kolchak’s White government, ruthlessly liquidated all Reds, terrorized the population, prostituted themselves to the Japanese Army, antagonized the American Expeditionary Force and Czechoslovak Legion and orchestrated the frenzied last spasms of the Russian Empire’s Götterdämmerung. Like inland pirates, they menaced the Trans-Siberian Railway with fleets of armored trains, Cossack cavalry, mercenaries and pressgang cannon fodder. Through such brash action, Semenov and a handful of Cossack brethren established themselves as the warlords of the Russian Far East. Nevertheless, Captain Grigorii Semenov cleverly convinced the garrison to lay down its arms and board a train back into Bolshevik territory. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. And their lyrics are far from cliched and make actual sense and have actual meaning.WHITE TERROR In the last days of 1917, a fugitive Mongol-Cossack captain brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a roughneck bordertown on Russia’s frontier with Manchuria. Stephen Merritt (in any of his guises - Magnetic Fields, 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, etc.)Įach one of these artists has a unique voice that doesn't blend into the next guy and I promise will move you and make you think. So, does he have a plan? Does his plan involve whining about how he can't get the girl? I don't understand?Īs far as singer songwriters with really lovely lyrics and interesting instrumentation, why not try:Įels (a one man-act, essentially fronted by Mark Everett or E) Then he says that they shared a moment - possibly because he was high he mistook the girl thinking "wow, he looks totally wasted" with a moment. Then he goes away and moans about how he doesn't have a plan.
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