How did the Whites lose the Crimea and the coasts of Azov and

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>>1498877
Personally, I wouldn't mind being whisked away by a big, burly, Russian man :3

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In October 1920 the remnants of the White Guard troops that had been routed in Northern Tavria (20,000–25,000 infantry and cavalry and about 200 guns) occupied fortifications on the Perekop Isthmus and at the crossings of the Sivash. The first line of defense on the Perekop ran along the Turkish Wall (length up to 11 km, height 10 m, depth of moat 10 m), with three lines of barbed wire entanglements of three to five pickets in front of the moat. The second line of defense was the strongly fortified Ishun’ position. There were also strong fortifications at the Chongar crossings and lesser ones on the Litovskii Peninsula and the Arabat Spit.

On the evening of Nov. 7, 1920, the 15th and 52nd rifle divisions began crossing the Sivash under difficult weather conditions, and on November 8 they took the Litovskii Peninsula. On November 9, after repeated attacks, V. K. Bliukher’s 51st Rifle Division took the Turkish Wall. From November 9 to 11 the Sixth Army, committing the Latvian Rifle Division to action, broke through the enemy defense in the Ishun’ region. At the same time the 30th Rifle Division made the Chongar and Sivash crossings and captured the fortified area near the Taganash railroad station, while the 9th Rifle Division, having crossed the Genichesk Strait, prepared to invade the Crimea along the Arabat Spit from the mouth of the Salgir River. The Whites’ situation had become hopeless.
On November 11, acting on behalf of the Soviet government, M. V. Frunze sent a surrender proposal to General Wrangel, guaranteeing amnesty to all personnel of the White Army.

The Perekop-Chongar operation of 1920, which was conducted under very difficult conditions, demanded great exertion and heroism from the troops and great skill in command. V. I. Lenin called it “one of the most brilliant pages in the history of the Red Army”

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>With this naval dominance and an easily defensible position, how did the Whites come to lose Crimea?

Firstly, there was no naval dominance. Russian """navy""" has always been ridiculous, let alone Black Sea "Four Times Back to Back Self-Destruct Champion" Fleet but after revolution it quickly dissolved.
>Central Council started gaining control over the fleet
>Bolshevik propaganda was just as powerful as on the Baltic, most ships started raising red flags
>A clusterfuck ensues
>Germans sink the part of the fleet they had control over
>Bolsheviks sink the other part of the fleet

Secondly, Crimea wasn't that easily defensible at all, it switched sides constantly.

>Crimean Tatars try to make their own republic
>Bolsheviks seize control
>Ukrainian People's Republic seizes control
>Germans seize control and install Maciej Sulkiewicz's government
>Bolsheviks seize control again
>Finally Whites come