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There is some limited resistance (with sporadic fighting and some very minor uprisings going up to 1950) which is put down, with some survivors sent to Gulags, but, with many of their best fighters dead and the huge loss in life in general as well as the massive destruction, demoralization is high. Add to the mix the reliance on Soviet aid and the Soviets’ larger economic and military strength, which is no longer content to let the Territory be
(and only ever really did so for practical purposes, there is a great sense of inevitability in the air) the majority of people know it’s useless to resist, and reluctantly accept the end of their Anarchist experiment.
Great controversy still ensues over the successes and failures of that experiment, the precise political nature of The Free Territory, whether it was ultimately tenable, how long it could have lasted, etc. The continued survival of the territory is a, mostly in a minority of works, (except in Ukraine itself and to a somewhat lesser extent other former Soviet states) premise in various works of alternate history.
