lycortas wrote:Denikin shoeld not get the expert logistics bonus he should get the same malus as Kolchak; corrupted administration.
Yes, if Denikin was expert, then Wrangel was genius.
TheDoctorKing wrote:I'd like to see more Red (and also Komuch) leaders with the "propagandist" advantage. To my mind, this is their stereotypical advantage - they had a philosophy that, at least on paper, was very attractive to the Russian people. The Reds appealed to the urban working class
As the armies where mainly rural, I don't think it would be good. Only the few better talkers (Trotsky, Lenin, ..), or the rural leaders (such as makhnovists), should have this propagandist advantage. And that's one of the reason the Bolsheviks wanted to annihilate the makhnovchtchina.
while the Komuch appealed to the rural population, but each could also make inroads among the other's turf. The more aristocratic or bourgeois Whites already had the active support of most of the population that might have been attracted to their ideology; they didn't have much to gain from appeals to public opinion.
Anti-bolshevism was attractive for populations, not the White no-ideas. The Komuch was appealing because they were the better in the bad White ideas (such as: people were not for the coming-back of Kulaks, and Komuch was for).