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For example, in a telegram, which became known as "Lenin's hanging order", he demanded to "crush" landowners in Penza and to publicly hang "at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers" [11] in response to a peasant revolt there; yet, only the 13 organizers of the murder of local authorities and the uprising were arrested, while ...
On January 1, 1918, the first unsuccessful attempt on Lenin's life took place in Petrograd, in which Friedrich Platten was slightly hit by a bullet. According to one of the versions of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), Dmitry Shakhovskoy was the organizer of the assassination attempt on January 1, 1918. [1]
Then on August 30, 1918, PSR member Fanny Kaplan fired three shots at Lenin, gravely wounding him, while elsewhere an assassin met with greater success, killing head of the Petrograd Cheka Moisei Uritsky. [6] The Bolsheviks responded with a "Red Terror," taking hostages and engaging in summary executions of their enemies. The bloody civil war ...
On Sept. 5, 1918, the Soviet government adopted a decree sanctioning “Red Terror,” which prescribed “mass shooting” to be “inflicted without hesitation.”
On August 30, 1918, Lenin spoke at the Hammer and Sickle, an arms factory in southern Moscow. [11] As Lenin left the building and before he had entered his car, Kaplan called out to him. When Lenin turned towards her, she fired three shots with a FN M1900 pistol. One bullet passed through Lenin's coat, and the other two struck him.
While Lenin was absent, of 5 September 1918 Sovnarkom passed a decree, "On Red Terror", which Lenin later endorsed. [185] This decree called for perceived class enemies of the proletariat to be isolated in concentration camps , and for those aiding the White Armies or rebellions to be shot; it decreed that the names of those executed should ...
The Red Square mausoleum where his embalmed corpse lies in an open sarcophagus is no longer a near-mandatory pilgrimage but a site of m A century after Lenin's death, the USSR's founder seems to ...
3.4 Anti-Kulak campaigns, Cheka, and Red Terror: 1918–1922. 3.5 Civil War and the Polish–Soviet War: ... Lenin's government abolished private ownership of land, ...