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* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: a stereotypical White Guard. Except in earlier Soviet fiction, where they were portrayed as either [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] or ineffectual, alcoholic and decadent.
* [[The Political Officer]]: [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Subverted. Mad Baron [[Ungern-Sternberg]] was convinced that he was a [[War Is Glorious|glorious]] Medieval warlord with the [[Heroic Lineage]] of several peoples. Well he was certainly a warlord, he behaved [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|rather like]] a medieval one, and he was probably [[Take That|no more incompetent]] then a lot of them were in real life. He gathered a bunch of [[Former Regime Personnel]] and had a reign of terror that was so awful that even the most rabid anticommunist would root for the Reds when they came to do him down. Which they did in a routine manner as
* [[The Remnant]]: Baron Wrangel's Crimean White remnant. Merkulov's Far Eastern White remnant. General Pepelyaev's last campaign is this IN SPADES.
**In this department it did not help that often the quickest shorthand for a Red to win promotion-or just survive-was to convince his superiors of his loyalty by being as brutal as possible. Which included [[We ARE Struggling Together!|denouncing colleagues]] who were not as brutal as oneself.
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