1872. General Anton Denikin was born
On December 16, 1872, 140 years ago, Lieutenant General Anton Ivanovich Denikin, commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia, was born. During the Second World War, living in France, he categorically abandoned any cooperation with the Nazis and welcomed the successes of the Red Army, also hoping that she would turn the bayonets against the Bolsheviks, and therefore put forward the slogan: “Russian protection and the overthrow of Bolshevism”.