AH Challenge: White Russia win the civil war

Unity is strength

Deknin and Korliov needed to bury the hachet.
They were the smartest among white commanders.
I would also have done a chieu hoi type program for Menchavicks and reformed Bolishi. The Lativans could have been won over with clever dimpomacy.
 
Nope it isn't even without the Poles, the Belarussians had nothing, when the Poles came they were already occupied by the Bolsheviks.
"Occupation" is pretty fluid term in civil war, when combatants' allegiance is often switching from side to side. It would be better to say that they were attracted toward communist ideas (it took Poles until mid-1920s to suppress guerilla in Kresy, conducted by leftists and supported by lots of locals). However, with proper timing Belarus can be made White stronghold.
 
If the Whites joined with the Greens (Socialist Revolutionaries) instead of helping the Reds by killing them off, then not only would they have had an ideology to join up behind, but also the support of a lot of the peasantry...
 
So what would have happened had Poland intervened on the White Side?

Also, what were the Cossacks doing during all this?
 
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