November 11, 1920 · Crimea — Sevastopol, Feodosiya, Kerch Theater
November 11, 1920
After the Polish-Soviet armistice freed Red Army forces for the southern front, Frunze's armies smashed through Wrangel's defenses on the Perekop Isthmus and flooded into Crimea. Wrangel organized a remarkable evacuation: 126 ships carried 145,693 soldiers, civilians, and families out of Crimean ports in four days. Those who remained — White officers, civil servants, soldiers who surrendered — were executed by the Cheka in mass killings estimated at 50,000–150,000 victims. The evacuation marked the end of organized White resistance in European Russia.
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