i don't get it at first the reds let the white forces go but many civilians went along with them. the city by the final months of one thousand twenty people were fleeing in panic on and on. by the end of one nine hundred twenty one and a half million russians had left their own land and more waiting to be taken in by various european countries most of these refugees hope to settle in germany or france but in constantinople the comparable of the ottoman empire their situation only worsened becoming a humanitarian catastrophe. hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the defeated white army streamed into the city with their families and became stranded there. they lived in cry. emergency shelters scattered throughout constantinople. at the time of their arrival turkish nationalists were driving orthodox christian