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Kolchak (seated) is shown holding a flag which bears the writing 'Shoot every tenth worker and peasant!' A kulak (rich landowning peasant) and a bourgeoisie are shown bowing to Kolchak.
Kolchak, a naval officer, supported the Provisional Government and especially its pro-war position. He vehemently opposed the Bolsheviks and after the October revolution, the defeated Kerensky appointed Kolchak as Supreme Ruler of the Russian state. In that capacity, he gathered a counter revolutionary army (Whites). However, he was captured by the Red Army and executed by the Bolshevik government in February 1920.
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