Editing Pyotr Wrangel (section)

==Legacy==
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The Serbian town of [[Sremski Karlovci]], which had served as his headquarters after he emigrated from Russia, erected a monument in his honour in 2007. At the time of his death, it was the location of the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]] (ROCOR, which is now based in New York) and the Russian Ministry of Culture.<ref>[http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/4102/Споменик-белом-барону Споменик белом барону] ''[[Politika]]'', 13 September 2007.</ref>

During the [[Russian Civil War]], the combat song of the [[Red Army]], ''[[White Army, Black Baron]]'', was named for Wrangel, and its first verse identifies Wrangel as both the leader of the Whites and a serious threat to the success of Soviet Russia.

Many Russian officers regarded Wrangel so highly that he had almost a semi-sacred status. After [[Operation Barbarossa|Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941]], some prominent military émigrés referred to the position that they believed Wrangel would have taken. For example, Major General Mikhail Mikhailovich Zinkevich said in mid-August 1941, "If General Wrangel were alive today, he would go unhesitatingly with the Germans".<ref>O. Beyda, ‘“Re-Fighting the Civil War”: Second Lieutenant Mikhail Aleksandrovich Gubanov’. ''Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas'', Vol. 66, No. 2, 2018, p. 254.</ref>

In 2015, the government of the [[Russian Federation]] began to repatriate the remains of White Emigres that were buried abroad, but the descendants of Wrangel refused to have his remains returned to Russia as the current [[Government of Russia|Russian government]] had not "condemned the evil [of Bolshevism],"<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Gessen |first1=Masha |title=The Dearly Departed Return to Russia |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-dearly-departed-return-to-russia |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> referring to [[Vladimir Putin]]'s unwillingness to denounce the Soviet crimes and implement a proper [[Decommunization in Russia|decommunization]].<ref>Karl W. Ryavec. ''Russian Bureaucracy: Power and Pathology'', 2003, Rowman & Littlefield, {{ISBN|0-8476-9503-4}}, page 13</ref>

He was portrayed by Russian actor [[Aleksandr Galibin]] in the first season of the Serbian television series ''[[Balkan Shadows]]'', which features Wrangel's Cossack emigres as major characters.

In September 2021, following the [[Withdrawal of the United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021)|withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan]], in an opinion piece in [[The Wall Street Journal]], Wrangel's grandson Peter A. Basilevsky compared the "bureaucratic incompetence" of the U.S. government in Afghanistan to the successful November 1920 evacuation of 150,000 anti-Bolshevik soldiers and civilians under Wrangel which became possible with far inferior resources of the White Army and in the face of the advancing Red Army.<ref>{{Cite news|date=8 September 2021|title=Opinion {{!}} Incompetence in Action: Afghanistan Edition|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/incompetence-afghanistan-war-biden-withdrawal-crisis-management-11630942877|access-date=15 September 2021|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>