Is he the real life version of Colonel Kurtz?

Is he the real life version of Colonel Kurtz?

No

Ungern was insane before he ever picked up a gun.
The real life version of Kurtz exists only as a name on some Free State documentation, and most probably returned home to wherever he lived, most probably beat the shit out of his wife, too.
Nobody will ever learn of what he did there, his spectre lingers on only in the vicious haymakers his great-great-grandson fires at his great-great-great-grandson.

He is even Crazier than Kurt. Like DARKFLAMEMASTAH kind of crazy.

No. Chinese Warlords were. They pretty much ruled like feudal kings.

Pic related, the maddest of them all: Zhang Zongchang.
>Ex-Bandit, joined army of Northern warlord: Zhang Zuolin
>Takes command of Shandong Province, makes it his own little kingdom.
>Acquires the name General Dogmeat for his fondness of Gambling (Dogmeat, a sort of card game in China)
> Kept some thirty to fifty concubines of different nationalities, including Koreans, Japanese, White Russians, French and Americans, each of whom were given numbers since he could not remember their names nor speak their language.
>Becomes so powerful, he becomes known as "General Three Don't Knows." because "He doesn't know how much money he has, how big his army is, how many concubines he has."
>During one of his campaigns, he publicly announced he would win the battle or come home in his coffin. When his troops were forced back he was true to his word - he was paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin, and smoking a large cigar.
>Accepted a lot of White Russian refugees fleeing Bolsheviks. Organized them into a personal bodyguard of White Russian lancers.
>Was in Opium trade, with his son in charge of the operation. A deal gone bad and his son and three other officers engaged in a shootout. They killed each other.
Eventually defeated in 1928 by Chiang Kai-Shek, he fled to Japan.
> "Accidentally" shot Prince Xien Kai, a cousin of Emperor Puyi. According to Zhang the gun he was holding while standing at his hotel window happened to go off and shoot the prince in the back, killing him, but likely he killed the playboy prince for dallying with one of Zhang's concubines.
>Was charged, found guilty by a Japanese court, and given the choice between 15 days imprisonment or a $150 fine.
>He chose the fine.

>General Dogmeat for his fondness of Gambling
Suuure...

>Zhang Zongchang's nickname of the Dogmeat General came from a fondness for gambling, especially for the game Pai Gow which northeastern Chinese called "eating dog meat".
It's a specific game.

No, he's basically what Lawrence of Arabia could have become if Lawrence had stayed among the Arabs when WWI ended instead of giving up and returning to England.

Oh, that's explained, then.

He wasn't crazy, he was a thug. Al Capone with an army.

It was a semiautomatic pistol new to him. Given how twitchy many of these were back then it may well have been an accident.

>There were Warlords in China who literally had private air forces.

Thirty five city blocks in Tulsa, Oklahoma were destroyed by a squadron of privately owned WWI military planes during the 1921 race riot.

You need to have your soldiers worship you as a living god to be Kurtz tier

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You need to be buddies with fear and moral terror to be on Kurtz's level

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Ungern's mongol bodyguards taught he was the reincarnation of a god of war

Did any of the non-mongols in his army buy into that or were they mostly loyal because of past service with him?

Damaged yes. Destroyed no. Well, maybe 4 or 5.

Jack Idema was the modern day col kurtz