>>216164282 (OP)
This but unironically. People forget even the whites stopped giving a rat's ass about them and saw them as a liability to the point of omitting them from their own propaganda during the Russian civil war.
>>216166192
The Chinese Communist did it better imo. I can't think of a bigger ideological victory than successfully reforming the head of a previous reactionary into a citizen comrade. Chuds in the 50s were seething at Pu Yi's conversion.