What's Veeky Forums opinion on the Mad Baron

Was he a somewhat competent ruler or simply a mad man?

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he's highly underrated, no man can came closer of what he did

He is a mix of both. A mad man ruler, he clearly was dropped on some hard teutonic floors as a baby but he get's my seal of approval.

Who is this man

Khanaboo who decided to reform Mongolia during the Russian Civil War.

Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

Best representation of an absolute madman in history.

His military record is pretty impressive too for a man known to go on alcohol induced frenzies and slap his fellow officers around

>tfw no von ungern biopic
pic related should play him

Ah hell fucking yeah. Would be weird to hear him without his trademark accent tho.

Timur did it better desu

Prussian nobleman who served in the Imperial Russian military during WWI, but was sent to command a garrison in Siberia due to his excessive brutality on the front lines. When the Communist Revolution happened, he lead his garrison down into central Asia, where he recruited an army of wandering bandits and nomads, before attacking Chinese-controlled Mongolia, annihilating the Chinese northern army, and installing himself as a sort of proto-fascist theocrat claiming divine right as Genghis Khan reborn. Shortly thereafter, he invaded the Soviet Union, where his own men betrayed him to the enemy and he was executed.

Imagine how it would look if his men didn't betray him..

He was too sane for this world.
>Ungern-Sternberg believed the revolution of 1905 was all the work of the Jews

Childhood is when you ideolize Hitler and Mussolini. Teenagehood is when you ideolize Stalin and Lenin,
adulthood is when you realize Von Ungern makes more sense

he would just have been killed in battle instead.
his best chanses would been staying in mongolia and maybe invade some Chinese warlords

Even if the rest of his army agreed to his crack-brained 'plan' to retreat to Tibet, all that would've happened would be a slow death by attrition ending in a massacre by the inevitable Russian counterattack. He truly bit off more than he could chew.

This is mere speculation, but I believe he would've had more success if he turned his attention to establishing himself in China and especially in Manchuria, where a lot of Russian emigres went after the Revolution. But to do so would require a very different man from the one who decided he could take on the entire Soviet Union with a force of barely 3000.

They betrayed him because he was leading them to certain death. He had no artillery, no tanks, and was outnumbered ten to one by the Soviets.

Well you learn something new everyday.

Literally /ourguy/

>A nobleman who was German AND Russian
>Kicked out of school for dueling/being insane
>Cunning tactician
>Became a Buddhist LARP-er
>Believed himself to be the reincarnation of the Mongol war god
>Led an cavalry army of Cossacks, Mongols, and Russians
>Drove out the Chinese and re-established the Khanate of Mongolia
>Believed that he would create a divine monarchy and drive the Bolsheviks from Russia.

(justfor/pol/):
>Huge anti-semite

He's basically an evil version of Lawrence of Arabia.

A genius who identified early on the cause of the decline of the West, and a warrior who didn't fear to fight for his ideal.

He was based.

There is a lot of myth and misconception surrounding him, as well as propaganda.

There is no evidence that he thought himself a reincarnation of anything, or that he even attempted to exploit the beliefs of the mongols, which the Soviets did on the reg, i.e. supported their nationalism. His while scheme was to reestablish all the monarchies. He was an interesting person no doubt, but there is too much mythic bullshit floating around.

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