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This would be around the time Voline was negotiating his release from prison with the bolsheviks, who had been putting a lot of energy in to trying to discredit their chief competitors in the revolution (the makhnovists) … Not to mention this is all in the context of mass killings of the booj and a very bloody war, making a regular old orgy seem passé.

Lethal violence is a very casual thing, mass executions and collective punishment are totally normalized by everyone and we appear to be splitting hairs over vague allegations of lack of consent, towards an entire officer core? HMMM ...