In 2009, a monument to N.I. Makhno was unveiled in the Gulyai-Pole district center, Zaporizhia region, Ukraine. This is a beautiful reinforced concrete sculpture, painted with gold paint, full-length human. It seems that he literally sat down for a minute to rest on the cartridge case. There is also a museum and an exhibition hall on the history of Makhno's life, numerous wheelbarrows with "Maxims" and everywhere flags with inscriptions:"Anarchy is the mother of order", "You won't catch up!" etc . A very interesting and instructive exposition. Nestor Ivanovich Makhno /last name Mikhnenko/, born on October 26 / November 7 / 1888, Ukrainian anarcho-communist, revolutionary. During the Civil War, he created and commanded the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. He died on July 25, 1934 from bone tuberculosis in a hospital in the suburbs of Paris. The body was cremated, the urn with the ashes was immured in the wall of the columbarium of the Pere Lachaise cemetery, in cell No. 6686. He is the author of several books, including the memoirs "Memories", published in Russia by Terra publishing house. It should be noted that Makhno's rebel army was not nationalist, as it is represented. The bulk of it were Ukrainians, Russians and Greeks, there were Jews and even an Estonian military band captured from the Red Army. The Makhnovists consistently fought against all the Governments of Ukraine: the Central Rada of Hrushevsky, Hetman Skoropadsky, the Petliura Directory and never allied with them, as well as with the Whites, periodically attacked the advanced units, and especially the rear of the Red Army. However, this did not prevent Makhno, in the presence of a real threat, from concluding military alliances with the Red Army several times and even being called the Red Commander. In alliance with Moscow, he liberated Crimea from the army of Baron Wrangel.He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner under No. 4, but later the documents on his award were "lost" and according to official data, J. Fabricius was awarded the Order No. 4. And yet, foreign experts always note that the RPAU intelligence was one of the best in the world at that time, second only to the British, German and, possibly, the Cheka. While living in immigration in France, he earned his bread by his labor, and was often poor. And this is despite the fact that he was an unyielding authority of anarchists all over the world, especially in Europe and Latin America. He received a lot of money from them, for that time, but he gave everything, to the last centimetre, to hospitals and those in need.In 1934, he was offered to head the republican government of Spain, but he refused for health reasons. If not for this, it is not known who would have won the civil war - the Republicans or Franco, because then tens of thousands of anarchists from all over the world would have poured into Spain at Makhno's call, and not several hundred, as happened in reality. In Soviet literature and cinema, N.I. Makhno's image was presented as a mentally unstable clown. Currently, his image is overly romanticized and he is presented as a "Ukrainian Robin Hood". I think the truth is somewhere in between. It is worth noting that everyone, including enemies, notes that Nestor Ivanovich was not noticed in greed and personal gain. All these books and legends about his supposedly buried wealth, including the stolen treasures of the Patriarchal Sacristy, are just fairy tales invented by his enemies.

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