![]() ![]() Yet, being of a dark and pessimistic turn of mind, I wonder if we will, under some circumstance in the not-so-distant future, have to ponder its application.Īnd General Order No. Fury against the heads of the revolution, its devoted followers, must know no boundaries.Ĭhilling words, anathema to civilized values. Henceforth there can only be ‘truth and merciless hardness.’ The evil which has fallen upon the land, with the object of destroying the divine principle in the human soul, must be extirpated root and branch. ‘Truth and mercy’ are no longer admissible. It was actually the first order issued by the paperwork-averse man born Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg.) (Numbered “15” for superstitious reasons. In 1921, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, convinced by oracles that he had 130 days to live, issued, as the “Incarnated God of War, Khan of grateful Mongolia”, his notorious General Order 15. Review: The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia, James Palmer, 2008. ![]() Baron Ungern-Sternberg has held a fascination for me since encountering him in Mark Samuels’ story “ A Call to Greatness”, so I picked up a biography of him. ![]()
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