21: Red Cavalry (Premium)

‘[T]he Bolsheviks are failing… their regime is doomed.’

Winston Churchill to Lord Curzon, Autumn 1919 (Kinvig, Churchill’s Crusade, p 305)

January 15th, 1920

The date by which, in Autumn 1919, British military officials predicted Moscow would fall to the Whites

‘Na konii, proletarii!’

‘To horse, proletarians!’ Red Army slogan, 1918-1919

Today’s cover image: a 1968 postage stamp commemorating the Civil War-era Red Cavalry

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